Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)

the audience applauded

Beautiful, moving film.

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

I'd like to say that the movie was okay in general,but there were some things that annoyed me so much. First,i don't get it why there were so many close ups of everyone's faces,example they eat and they chew with their mouth open and all the food is shown which was disgusting. Another thing is that the sex scene is overrated,I honestly don't think that it makes the movie better or anything,unlike the other comments and reviews that I read. There were so many holes in this movie that i don't know where to start.We don't know anything about how they ended up living together or whether at some point Adele's parents find out about her being a lesbian.I read that you can learn from this movie a lot about relationships,whether you are straight or homo or bi,which is totally not true.Nothing is really happening between them other the fact that Emma becomes very busy and avoids Adele,who then cheats on Emma and they break up..typical stuff that has been seen in a lot of movies.It lasts 3 hours and nothing happens particularly that makes the movie interesting.

This is on Netflix. Probably the best LGBT film I've ever seen. It's a love story. The characters are believable as is their acting. It's quite explicit in some scenes so not for under 18s but despite that it's a very honest and true film. It's nice to see a film which focuses on the couples love rather than them being victims or outsiders in society. Although the film does highlight some social pressures of being out as a young person in modern day France the film really is a love story about freedom, art and expression as well as growing up and acceptance. It's a French movie, subtitled but don't let that put you off. It does everything a good love story should without the tinsel town Hollywood touch. As good as Priscilla and Roman Holiday. It's up there. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2278871/

I'll grant you, soft-core, but porn all the same.First off, I found this film to be extremely exploitative. The story of two Lesbians is a vehicle for some extremely (I would underline that and put it in all caps) gratuitous sex scenes, filmed by a director who is, to my knowledge, straight.Now, I shall grant the few readers of this that, in most circumstances, that is not a good ground to dismiss something as exploitation, but in light of the two actresses claims of harassment during the shooting and the nearly pornographic content of the film (no, seriously, don't show this to your parents), I make my case there.The film graphic content of this film also has the, I assume, unintended consequence of completely alienating me, personally, from this supposed "intimate and heartfelt" relationship. It's hard to think of intimacy and closeness when a ten minute scene of the two actresses performing various lesbian sex acts is thrown in your face.Performance-wise, I preferred Léa Seydoux's performance, as she at least gave an expressive performance. Adèle Exarchopoulos might as well have been wearing a mask, because the only time I noticed her emoting was when tears were coming out of her eyes.The editing at points seemed rather dissonant, with a couple of these sex scenes being accompanied with music that would signify something romantic à la most Hollywood movies. It has a strange disconnect for me in these scenes, again, mostly because of their graphic content.In terms of script-writing it was alright. It stuck pretty closely to the Hollywood three-act structure, so it would have been pretty hard to mess that up, but, while I can't say I was bored, I am still perplexed as to why this movie was three hours long.And that's about all I want to say about this film.Exploitative, kinda hypocritical, alright screenplay, some decent acting.

The story contains touching elements that are not restricted to relationships of homosexual couples; however, the structure of the film seems to be merely a skeleton for the disturbing and unrealistic 'pornish' scenes between the protagonists. Those scenes are not necessary for the development of the plot yet last for too long and end in ridiculous 'positions' (the most ridiculous one is when they have finished having sex, they rest their faces in front of each other's 'rear end' - - sounds delicious? ew.). The whole three hours of the watching experience seemed to be a bad porn watching experience only that this one has a plot, and that their meeting in the cafe did get me. Maybe I should have given it two stars for the cafeteria scene.