An intimate romance unfolds with earnest melancholy as a young woman discovers desire and self-acceptance.
A date-night pick at a measured pace. Emotionally it is devastating.
Streaming on AMC+, Kanopy (free), The Roku Channel (free) and Plex (free).
It stays inside its NC-17, with strong sex and nudity, and some violence.
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Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.
Bittersweet. It earns its ending, but not everyone gets what they want.
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