While such performance is involuntary, how it should be read is to depend on a regulative discourse (Foucault, 1978), a concept borrowed from Michel Foucault, which defines the characteristics of sex, gender and sexuality accepted by the society. Gender is performative, gender can only be constructed through one’s performance and behaviour repeatedly to be considered “real” (Callis, 2009, p.229). Biological male, masculinity and heterosexual desire are seen as coherence in the mainstream gender binary and heterosexual society coherence is seen among biological female, femininity and sexual desire towards masculinity. In Judith Butler’s theory of Performativity – Gender Trouble (1990), sex, gender and sexuality are seen separate. Such invisibility of bisexuality is also seen in Judith Butler’s Performativity of Gender in theory.īisexuality is invisible because it cannot be performed Through citing scenes from Blue is the Warmest Colour, this argument will be illustrated. The major argument of the article is that bisexuality is non-performative in the gender binary, and therefore invisible in daily lives. Although the lesbian relationship between Adele and Emma is the major plot of the film, the sexuality of Adele is in fact left ambiguous - she never stated her sexuality explicitly while denied a lesbian label for several times, despite that Adele engages in sexual relationships with both male and female, audience might recognize she is a bisexual from her performance. One might describe Blue is the Warmest Colour is a bisexual film.

The protagonist, Adele (starred by Adèle Exarchopoulos) who is a literature student in her teenage, engages in a romantic and sexual relationship with the deuteragonist, Emma, who is a college student painter Emma (starred by Léa Seydoux).

It is a French romantic film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Abdellatif Kechiche. Download Invisibility of Bisexuals – The Film Blue is the Warmest Colourīlue is the Warmest Colour (2013) (French: La Vie d'Adèle), adapted from a novel written by Julie Maroh of the same name.

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