Since her breakout performance in Abdellatif Kechiche’s “Blue Is the Warmest Colour,” Exarchopoulos has continued to draw praise for her roles in relatively under-the-radar French films.
Note: The actor profiled in this story is not a member of SAG-AFTRA, which is currently on strike, and Mubi—the distributor of the film discussed—is not a struck company., director Ira Sachs offers an exquisitely seductive meditation on desire. The acclaimed indie filmmaker’s latest stars Franz Rogowski and Ben Whishaw as a stylish married couple whose relationship is turned upside down when a captivating young school teacher, played by Adèle Exarchopoulos, enters their lives.
“I love that it’s not the subject of the film, that they’re homosexual and one loves a girl. It’s just, like, this is a couple [who has been together a long time] and they face the fact that one of them is going to cross a boundary and take the risk of losing the other one,” Exarchopoulos, who is best known for starring in 2013’s“It’s a movie about the present; it’s modern,” she adds.
At the beginning of the film—cowritten by Sachs and Mauricio Zacharias and set in Paris and the French countryside—the threesome meets at a wrap party for Tomas’s latest directorial effort, a moody, European period piece. In a moment they’ll all come to regret, Martin , a printmaker and artist in his own right, bows out of dancing for the evening and leaves his mercurial husband and Agathe alone, writhing in clingy going-out clothes under the club’s colored lights.
Igniting something unexpected in Tomas, Agathe ends up in bed with him that night—and so begins a chain of events powered by the domineering Tomas’s voracious appetite for sex and intimacy. He soon leaves his comfortable marriage with Martin to move in with Agathe, but when Martin, in turn, pursues a relationship of his own with a successful writer named Amad , it draws Tomas’s attention, despite his promises to Agathe.
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