

Much of the controversy was about allegations of poor working conditions on set by the crew and the lead actresses, and also the film's raw depiction of sexuality. The film generated controversy upon its premiere at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and before its release. Approximately 800 hours of footage were shot, including extensive B-roll footage, with Kechiche trimming the final cut to 179 minutes. Production began in March 2012 and lasted five months. The film's premise is based on the 2010 graphic novel of the same name by Jul Maroh. It depicts their relationship from Adèle's high school years to her early adult life and career as a schoolteacher. The film follows Adèle (Exarchopoulos), a French teenager who discovers desire and freedom as an aspiring painter, Emma (Seydoux), enters her life. As Gina and Michael realize their newfound friendship is so much more, they struggle against some surprising resistance from their families and community to unite their two grieving families as one and eventually learn to open their hearts to love again.Blue Is the Warmest Colour ( French: La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2 French pronunciation: ) is a 2013 romance film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Abdellatif Kechiche and starring Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos. Over the year that follows, their lives become intertwined as they learn to lean on each other during the at-times insurmountable obstacles, tears and adversity and begin to heal with laughter, compassion and faith. Sensing the hopelessness in Michael she so recently saw in herself, Gina reaches out to Michael and his kids and the two families begin to forge an unlikely friendship and close bond.

In a gut-wrenching coincidence, just weeks after Matt's death, the Spehns' mom, Cathy, also suddenly succumbs to cancer, leaving her distraught husband, Michael, to care for their three kids on his own. Wanting to be close to her kids, Gina starts to volunteer at their elementary school and meets the Spehn children, Jack, Danny and Charlotte.

After cancer claims Matt Kell's life on Christmas Day 2005, his widow, Gina and two young boys are left to cope with the pain of his loss while their close church community gathers around them for support.
