The Bozeman Film Festival will screen acclaimed French filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche's latest, Blue Is The Warmest Color in The Emerson Center's Crawford Theatre Thursday, January 16th at 7:30 pm.  Based on Julie Maroh's graphic novel, this Romance/Drama was the sensation of 2013's Cannes Film Festival even before it was awarded the Palme d'Or.

            Adèle Exarchopoulos is a young woman whose longings, ecstasies and losses are charted across a span of several years. Léa Seydoux (Midnight in Paris) is the older woman who excites her desire and becomes the love of her life. Kechiche's movie is, like the films of John Cassavetes, an epic of emotional transformation that pulses with gestures, embraces, furtive exchanges, and arias of joy and devastation. It is a profoundly moving hymn to both love and life. Detroit News' Tom Long calls it: "An astounding, complex film about the ecstasy, the danger and the beauty of love."

            Tickets are $8 / General Admission; $7 / Seniors and Students, available in advance at Cactus Records and one hour before the show in The Emerson's Lobby. Come early for a no-host social with wine, beer and cocktails courtesy of The Zebra Cocktail Lounge, along with delicious local fare.

            Be sure to see this critically acclaimed, provocative film - a Best Foreign Film nominee for the 2014 Golden Globes. In French with English subtitles, Blue Is The Warmest Color is rated NC17 and runs 180 minutes. Upcoming dates: 01/30 – TBA, 02/09 – Academy-Award Nominated Shorts Program, 02/19 – Mistaken For Strangers with special guest director Tom Berninger. For a current BFF screening schedule, visit bozemanfilmfestival.org - and Keep 'em flickering!