‘Blue’ in the Hair; Lea Seydoux To Topline Abdellatif Kechiche’s Graphic Novel Adaptation

She has built a solid career resume in a very short time span with Christophe Honoré, Bertrand Bonello, Quentin Tarantino, Raoul Ruiz, Woody Allen and Michel Gondry’s upcoming, “The Foam of the Days,” and now Lea Seydoux is set to topline Abdellatif Kechiche’s film adaptation of Blue Is a Hot Color. The actress will star alongside Adele Exarchopoulos (who had a bit part in Jean-Baptiste Léonetti’s Carre Blanc – a TIFF preemed item). We imagine production is set for sometime in the spring. Wild Bunch is backing this project.

Update: Cineuropa’s Fabien Lemercier reported this days before the Variety article — so we’ve changed the source.

Gist: Based on Julie Maroh’s graphic novel, this is about Clementine (Lea Seydoux), an adolescent, who discovers desire and love with Emma (Adele Exarchopoulos), a blue-haired girl.

Worth Noting: Kechiche’s fifth feature film will be his first book (more specifically graphic novel) adaption.

Do We Care?: Kechiche is particularly great at detailing the human condition of the female teenager as we saw Games of Love and Chance and to an extent, The Secret of the Grain (among our tops in 2009) — so we’re banking on this to be an accurate portrait.