Bold, challenging, sexually explicit with a stunning central performance from Adèle Exarchopoulos, Blue is the Warmest Colour is a deeply intuitive exploration of a young woman’s exploration of sex and sexuality.
Meeting Emma (Léa Seydoux) changes Adèle’s life as she embarks on an all-consuming passion with the older art student. Emotional intensity and heart-on-sleeve realism explode on screen as the two young women consume each other.
Director Abdellatif Kechiche continues his exploration of cinema verité with intense close ups as people talk, eat, laugh, make love revealing their everyday. Friends come, go; lives change, tensions build. The result is a beautiful, sensual rollercoaster ride as the young Adèle struggles to understand and immerses herself into that emotional intensity.
Winner of the 2013 Palme d’Or for Kechiche and, in a Cannes Film Festival first, Exarchopoulos and co-star Léa Seydoux.
Rating: 74%
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche (The Secret of the Grain, Mektoub My Love)
Writer: Abdellatif Kechiche (The Secret of the Grain, Mektoub My Love), Ghalya Lacroix (The Secret of the Grain, Mektoub My Love)
Main cast: Adèle Exarchopoulos (The White Crow, Sibyl), Léa Seydoux (The French Dispatch, Spectre), Salim Kechiouche (N.O.I.R., Black Really Suits You)
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