两个少女，一个生在波兰，一个生在法国，同样的相貌，同样的年龄，她们也有一样的名字：薇罗尼卡。她们都那样喜欢音乐，嗓音甜美。波兰的薇罗尼卡非常喜欢唱歌，唱高音特别出众。她觉得自己并不是独自一人生活在这个世界上，没想到一天她真的遇到一个样子跟她一模一样的女孩，可是她自己却在一次表演中心脏病发暴毙在舞台上。此时身在法国的薇罗尼卡正沉醉在与男友的欢愉中，突然她觉得特别的空虚难过。此后她的生活中便常常响起一段极其哀怨的曲子，她爱上了一个儿童读物作家。一次与男友聊天的过程中，她发现了在波兰拍的照片中，出现了一个与自己极为相似的女子，此时她才深深相信，世界上还有另外一个自己存在。

　　一次偶然中，保罗（Jérôme Robart 饰）结识了名叫弗雷德里克（路易斯·加瑞尔 Louis Garrel 饰）的画家，两人很快就成为了朋友。在弗雷德里克的家里，保罗遇见了女演员安格丽（莫妮卡·贝鲁奇 Monica Bellucci 饰），安格丽的美艳和奔放瞬间吸引了保罗的注意，保罗很快就坠入了爱河不能自拔。
　　为了追随安格丽，保罗跟随她来到了意大利，在这里，保罗成为了安格丽的同行，但是，初来乍到的他只能做群众演员。在工作中，保罗遇见了他的同行伊莉莎白（席琳·萨莱特 Céline Sallette 饰），两人一见如故。弗雷德里克邀请保罗到罗马游玩，保罗带上了伊莉莎白，一段复杂而换乱的感情关系就此展开。

　　本片用一种现实与记忆穿插的方式勾勒了男主人公X（吉奥吉欧·艾伯塔基 Giorgio Albertazzi 饰）与女主人公A（德菲因·塞里格 Delphine Seyrig 饰）公剪不断理还乱的情感纠葛。X的记忆中对于巴洛克宫殿里的亭台楼阁如数家珍，在他的描述性旁白中，人们 得以感受到他内心巨大的波澜。在剧场舞台上，戏子正在表演着离愁别绪的桥段。观众席上X跟贵妇A对视良久。歇息之时，剧场响起舞曲，X向A邀舞，两人在近距离表达了对彼此的感受。A觉得这个X是个关注自己的陌生人，但是X却讲述了去年与她发生的一段鲜为人知的故事。期间，还穿插了X跟A丈夫M（莎查•皮托夫 Sacha Pitoëff 饰）游戏对决的场景……

　　法国导演弗朗索瓦·欧容在沉寂两年后，终于带着皮埃尔·尼内、葆拉·贝尔主演的《弗兰兹》杀回影坛。影片将以一战后的法国为背景，聚焦贝尔饰演的德国女人正因未婚夫的惨死而悲痛欲绝，尼内饰演的神秘法国男子却悄然出现，默默为其未婚夫墓碑致哀、献花，两人也就此揭开一段匪夷所思的往事。

　　It has been said that most great twentieth century novels include scenes in a hotel, a symptom of the vast uprooting that has occurred in the last century: James Ivory begins Quartet with a montage of the hotels of Montparnasse, a quiet prelude before our introduction to the violently lost souls who inhabit them.
　　Adapted from the 1928 autobiographical novel by Jean Rhys, Quartet is the story of a love quadrangle between a complicated young West Indian woman named Marya (played by Isabelle Adjani), her husband Stefan (Anthony Higgins), a manipulative English art patron named Heidler (Alan Bates), and his painter wife Lois (Maggie Smith). The film is set in the Golden Age of Paris, Hemingway's "moveable feast" of cafe culture and extravagant nightlife, glitter and literati: yet underneath is the outline of something sinister beneath the polished brasses and brasseries.
　　When Marya's husband is put in a Paris prison on charges of selling stolen art works, she is left indigent and is taken in by Heidler and his wife: the predatory Englishman (whose character Rhys bases on the novelist Ford Madox Ford) is quick to take advantage of the new living arrangement, and Marya finds herself in a stranglehold between husband and wife. Lovers alternately gravitate toward and are repelled by each other, now professing their love, now confessing their brutal indifference -- all the while keeping up appearances. The film explores the vast territory between the "nice" and the "good," between outward refinement and inner darkness: after one violent episode, Lois asks Marya not to speak of it to the Paris crowd. "Is that all you're worried about?" demands an outraged Marya. "Yes," Lois replies with icy candor, "as a matter of fact."
　　Adjani won the Best Actress award at Cannes for her performances in Quartet: her Marya is a volatile compound of French schoolgirl and scorned mistress, veering between tremulous joy and hysterical outburst. Smith shines in one of her most memorable roles: she imbues Lois with a Katherine-of-Aragon impotent rage, as humiliated as she is powerless in the face of her husband's choices. Her interactions with Bates are scenes from a marriage that has moved from disillusionment to pale acceptance.
　　Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and James Ivory's screenplay uses Rhys's novel as a foundation from which it constructs a world that is both true to the novel and distinctive in its own right, painting a society that has lost its inhibitions and inadvertently lost its soul. We are taken to mirrored cafes, then move through the looking glass: Marya, in one scene, is offered a job as a model and then finds herself in a sadomasochistic pornographer's studio. The film, as photographed by Pierre Lhomme, creates thoroughly cinematic moments that Rhy's novel could not have attempted: in one of the Ivory's most memorable scenes, a black American chanteuse (extraordinarily played by Armelia McQueen) entertains Parisian patrons with a big and brassy jazz song, neither subtle nor elegant. Ivory keeps the camera on the singer's act: there is something in her unguarded smile that makes the danger beneath Montparnasse manners seem more acute.

　　故事主角是15岁女孩阿黛尔（阿黛尔·艾克萨勒霍布洛斯 Adèle Exarchopoulos 饰），她有一个帅气的同学男友托马斯（热雷米·拉厄尔特 Jeremie Laheurte 饰），但托马斯并没能走进她的心。她在街头意外遇到一个美丽的蓝发女孩艾玛（蕾雅·赛杜 Léa Seydoux 饰）后，第一次体验到小鹿乱撞般的怦然心动。而当某晚阿黛尔忐忑不安的走进一家同志酒吧，发现艾玛就在那儿等着她呢。女孩们的彼此靠近让阿黛尔的青春期变得复杂起来…...
　　《阿黛尔的生活》改编自法国女作家朱莉·马洛的情欲漫画《蓝色是最温暖的颜色》（即英文片名），讲述了女孩阿黛尔一段如火如荼的同性爱情。3个小时的片长长而不闷，充满各种情趣元素，而在性爱内容上又惊人的大胆。影片最可贵之处，是没有将同性恋做为热点话题加以投机，而是以同性之爱作为承载，寄托人类最美好也最伤感的初恋情怀。主角从发现自己的性取向，到一步步找到真爱，又一步步失去爱人，整个过程就如繁花盛放又归于荼蘼，让观众看得如痴如醉。
　　导演阿布戴·柯西胥出生于突尼斯，曾三次入围威尼斯金狮奖，其中《谷子和鲻鱼》获得了评委会大奖。他热衷于表现法国外裔青少年的生活和对身份认同的自我寻找，是一位一直维持着较高水准的创作型导演。2013年是他首次入围戛纳。《阿黛尔的生活》获得第66届戛纳电影节金棕榈大奖和影评人费比西奖。