- Sensibility: Real and tragically sensible through and through.
- Cinematography: Visually stunning. Camera work is excellent, and consistently gives what could easily tend pornographic a very artistic and reverent quality, even if sometimes these shots linger a bit too long. Costuming and hair are also excellent and give the characters life.
- Energy: The film is a raw emotional roller-coaster. Tense highs and slow lulls that ebb and flow in harmony with the story and character progression. Jaw-dropping performances and amazing music choices make this rather long film fly by with ease.
- Narrative: The film is full of spirituality, romance, and tragedy which the film brilliantly lays out in advance through literary reviews. The interplay of the literature, art, music, and narrative adds so much to the emotional content of the film that the heavy hitting scenes are like punches to the gut. Classic coming-of-age/finding yourself story with a gritty and heart-breaking twist that is both beautiful and ruthless.
- T-Points: The film received five bonus points: one for an incredible interplay of the literature with the film narrative, one for a scene of Adele eating with her family, one for a introductory conversation in a bar, one for perhaps the most incredible dramatic acting I've ever seen in a café, and one for Adele Exarchopolous's performance with incredible range and precision.
Undeniably great film that is too graphic to recommend to a wide audience. Regardless, the story, the acting, and the visuals of the film all come together to make an emotional masterpiece. Few films can give such depth
to a character without sacrificing something else along the way.
Number of Watches: 5
