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This year's Palm d'Or winner is a coming of age story about a teenage girl, Adele (the literal title in French is The Life of Adele), who discovers her homosexuality and begins a relationship with Emma, a college student. For a while, I was thinking this was a good but fairly unremarkable entry into the queer cinema canon, but, over the film's three hours, well, you see why the long running time was necessary. It is just a very detailed picture of a life. It feels more real than most films - it feels like more time has past and that we've just felt Adele's growth. Frankly, I didn't feel the length of it at all - I wanted it to be longer. It really helps that the actresses are so perfect. Adele Exarchopoulos is simply fantastic - this is the performance of the year, really. Her face is so expressive. The film takes place over several years, and you really do see her grow from a child to an adult. Lea Seydoux plays Emma. Her role is less demanding, but she's still great in it. Now, the biggest story of this film has probably been the graphic sex scenes. My opinion on them: I actually do think they're a bit too graphic, gratuitous and almost pornographic. I try to justify them artistically in my mind, and I'm afraid I can't. There's a plot point near the end where you kind of have to know that the girls' sex life was fantastic, but I'm not sure we had to see it in anywhere near as much detail as we did. They're without a doubt awkward to sit through, but they don't ruin the film either.

I waited some days to review this title after seeing this film. This movie triggered me thinking about love and life and I waited to give it my neutral review. I am watching movies since the latest 30 years and I have to say ; This movie is special !! After 30 years of seeing all kind of movies I have narrowed my scope of movies to see. They have to be special, show me something different, give me ideas to think about or to evaluate in my own life. So, movies like World war Z is not directly my style. This movie although is one of the best love stories I have seen. No unnecessary emotional or cuteness parts, each part of the story is real and genius. It is the soft moments of a love story, the hard moments bringing to the screen. The movie is made in away you are in the skin of Adele and Emma ( can't remember the actress names ). They take you with them in their love story, their feelings. That is also the reason that the 3 hours of the movie is not too long at all. I was surprised it took 3 hours when the film ended. The movie handles the passion between them, a passion that many of us forget over the years in a relation. That passion is also expressed in about 3 sex scenes, 3 scenes which are quiet honest and direct. Some people will find these scenes too long ( one of them could take 10 minutes ), but I find it necessary to establish your follow up of the passion they have between each other, so that when things goes worse you also are one with the situation.

This movie, natural, honest about love, life and sexuality could be attended by children of 12 and more, if they are explained things of life ( they also can see all kind of war movies … ). Many will say "Oh, lesbian movie, what the hell you are". This is a movie for all of us, independent of your orientation being gay, hetero, bisexual, … It is a Love story.

Each feeling, being angry / disappointment / sad / etc …, can be seen on the faces of Adele and Emma and by this I have to say that these actresses are just superb, in fact I don't know another word to say extraordinary acting. It has certainly been very difficult for them to make this film. The director : Bravo to him.

There are some scenes which are just fantastic : The first meeting between them, the encounter between them in the lesbian bar in which Adele is in a strange world as adolescent. The tree scene, where they actually get in love both of them. The level of a good love story with all it's feelings and situations has been raised to a higher one. Who can ever do this better.

And the last remark. The film treats the love story, it's personal problems, the passion, but does not handle the problems which can have their family or friends, not in detail.

And now, go and watch it !

I just want to start off by saying this is an amazing film about young love that is actually honest with its audience. There are countless of films about people falling in love, but when you see "Blue is the Warmest Colour". You realize just how rare films are that make a sincere attempt to catch what it really is like to fall for someone, without sentimentality, forced cuteness or cheap emotional manipulation. This is the rare love story that has real emotional truth about it. The fact that it is about two women who fall for each other is almost secondary to the way the film catches the universality of what it is like to fall in love and maintain the relationship. "Blue is the Warmest Colour is a naturalistic and touching film, whether you're gay, straight, bisexual, or whatever orientation. This is a film that can give you relationship advice and life guidance no matter what your orientation may be. It isn't an indulgent film bringing only a unique gay relationship to light and nothing more, and it isn't an ode to "coming out" and stockpiled clichés of "being different." It shows how an interaction with a person can have a truly provocative impact on you as a person.

The struggles between the two lovers is depicted in breathtaking detail. The director masterfully captures all of the turmoil and hardship going on between Adele's and Emma's relationship. The movie's long running time does not effect the film at all because you are so immersed into their characters. The sexual realization of Adele is perfectly shown in the movie. She is confused and doesn't know what she wants, it is a typical teenage problem. This movie is ultimately about Adele and her struggles to find her true self. The transformation that she experiences is utterly engrossing to watch. The film's nearly three hour running time is devoted to showing the growth of her character and it is absolutely amazing to watch it unfold right in front of your eyes.The intimate scene's between Adele and Emma are nothing short of miraculous in their depth and their honesty. The conversations are heartfelt, and the pain is evident and shared. It's realism of the world we live in is honest and raw.

The movie owes so much of it's emotional power to its two fantastic actresses. They really bring it their all in this. I've never had doubts of these two performances, the characters felt like real people and you felt so much for their relationship. Their emotional hardships feel completely real. The character's flaws and insecurities feel so authentic because you actually believe them as real human beings. We never lose sight of their chemistry and devotion to one another, even in the most difficult of times. The two of them are like fireworks, waiting to explode out. I cannot recommend this film enough to those of you out there who are interested in seeing this. This is one of the wisest and least condescending films I've seen this year. I congratulate the director, Abdellatif Kechiche and the two actresses, Adele Exarchopoulos and Lea Seydoux for an emotional and spiritual journey that had me compelled to the screen for 179 glorious minutes.

I saw this film on the last night it was playing at my local theater and I jumped on the opportunity. Once it was over I realized how smart of a decision it was. I read a review of the film that said something along the lines of, "the trouble with this film being 3 hours is that you want to watch it for several more." I couldn't agree more with that statement. The story, along with its characters, moves the film along to the point where it didn't feel like 3 hours.

This film was probably the most emotionally intense and powerful movie I've seen in a very long time. You believed everything you were seeing and it forced you to feel it along with the characters. As much that has been written about this film, the acting can not be overstated. These two actresses are a revelation in this movie.

It seems that whenever the topic of homosexuality is covered by a film it usually contains some sort of hate crime or bias against homosexuality somewhere in the story that the film's characters have to face and overcome. What's refreshing about this film is that there is a dash of that but its in the beginning of the film and never becomes the focus of the conflict with the characters. The film acknowledges that bias is there but brushes it aside to say that there is something bigger and more important at play with the characters. Really nice to see that in a film.

This movie ranks as one of the best films I've seen this year and am so happy I had a chance to see it.

I saw this film as a preview, at 11am on a Sunday morning, whilst nursing a horrible cold and it was the best decision I have made in a long time.

The film offers several basic and well used premises: the Eliza Doolittle/Henry Higgins: why won't you let me educate you thing, a dichotomy between big city and small city ideas and ideals and the well trotted out first love idea. However, the way this film is presented is entirely original. Kechiche sets it in Lille, a town in Northern France, full of provincial living and entirely captures how it is in general in this town - when the characters walk around you feel that he understands what he is talking about.

The film is about desire, desire to eat, desire to sleep with someone, desire to dance and it is portrayed within a first relationship between two women. The two women are fantastic and the plot has amusing little french jokes interspersed between the very emotionally demanding relationship that has you gasping at points. However the story is largely about one of them, Adele - and you feel over the three hours, that you get to know her, what she is about, what she finds attractive, what she wants (or what she thinks she wants). The actress playing her has a wonderfully expressive face and she needs it for the amount that happens. When she cries, when she eats, when she sleeps you believe her.

Much has been said about the sex scenes, which are very graphic, however these are entirely relevant to the plot and the furore seems to be about the actors criticising the director for pushing them too far, however, without this pushing this film wouldn't be nearly as good.

When it finished, and I realised that it had been three hours I couldn't believe it.

It was a revelation.

I envy people who haven't seen this film. Easily the best film I've seen this year. Everything in it is generalisable, you can recognise bits of your life in the various stages. (For me it's the cafe scene, my God, Adele says she used to eat scabs, in that scene she's sticking a dagger in her own heart and twisting it- it's excoriating, naked and raw. Sado- masochistic, almost. She's asking a question she knows the answer to and the answer will torture her).

It's an emotional voyage, the sex scenes are not that important, there's more lascivious eating than sex, the leads are absolutely incredible. This film really, truly moved me. I hope Adele's OK.

I was fortunate enough to see this movie at a screening last night in Los Angeles. It was amazing, everything about it amazing! Kechiche is something special. He works on something until he gets it right, and the only time he gets it right is when he feels comfortable with what he has shot. At the Q&A afterward with Kechiche, Seydoux and Exarchopoulos, I learned that they shot some of the takes 100 times!

His methods are unconventional. Because of this you are able to experience cinema in a whole new light. The acting was so real, so moving; these actresses gave everything they had, I'm just blown away with what I viewed. My hat is off to Exarchopoulos and Seydoux as actresses. No matter how painful and difficult the process must of been to make this movie in the end I think that they would have to agree it was worth it. To know that you gave everything is something special, and something that I hope I can look back to on my career and say I felt as well. Kechiche, call me, I want to be in your next film!!

The seventeen year-old high-school student Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos) lives with her middle class parents in France. Adèle dates his schoolmate Thomas (Jérémie Laheurte) and they have sex, but Adèle does not feel pleasure. She goes with her homosexual schoolmate Valentin (Sandor Funtek) to a gay bar, where she meets the lesbian Arts student and painter Emma (Léa Seydoux) and soon they have a love affair. But love is eternal while it lasts.

"La vie d'Adèle - Chapitres 1 et 2" is a movie of lesbian exploitation disguised in art. The love story between Adèle and Emma is too graphic and there is no art in watching two women sucking, licking and caressing each other many times for a long period in excessive sex scenes. The camera work is awful, with close up most of the time. The screenplay forgets Adèle's parents and should be shorter and shorter. The lead actresses have good performances and the story of lesbian love and rejection is not bad. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Azul é a Cor Mais Quente" ("Blue is the Hottest Color")

To put it in as simple terms as possible, Blue Is The Warmest Colour is a story about Adèle, a high school student who finds herself confused and troubled with her sexual identity. After passing a blue-haired girl on the street who catches her eye and an even more confusing, spontaneous and upsetting encounter with a classmate she finds it all to curious and enticing when a close, male friend takes her to a gay bar, she follows some girls to another bar nearby where she sees the blue- haired girl again. A short conversation sparks a relationship that carries us through the rest of the film.

Well, where to start?

To start with, this film is exhaustingly long. 3 hours is too much for so much useless, meandering exposition. It serves nothing other than to keep us away from a plot that is so thin you could go make yourself a cup of tea and come back 20 minutes later and nothing would've happened to push the story along. I'm sure there is an excellent 90 minute film in there somewhere if the editors had been more ruthless in their cutting and the director wasn't so preposterously self indulgent.

The sex scenes are unavoidable, exploitative and sickening within the context of the films creation. The major sex scene that everyone talks about took a gruelling 10 days to shoot and was only the actors 2nd shot on-set together, they literally didn't know each other and were suddenly put together to perform these scenes for an imposing, frustrated director.

Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos have both stated that the 3 hour film doesn't really show how much they shot, that the director would do hundreds of takes of even the most simple scenes, extend scenes and shoot for extremely long periods of time and would become enraged if they laughed even once out of one hundred takes.

Knowing how the actors felt about it (thankfully they have been vocal in interviews about how horrible and unpleasant the experience was) how uncomfortable they were with unchoreographed sex scenes; sex scenes are almost always choreographed, shots and various angles kept to minimal length so that actors are more comfortable and that the experience is as desexualised as possible. They have spoken about how they felt powerless to say anything about it because "The director has all the power. When you're an actor on a film in France and you sign the contract, you have to give yourself, and in a way you're trapped."…"In America, we'd all be in jail." – Léa Seydoux

This is perversion and abuse of power in the truest sense. The fact that Kechiche wrote the adaptation, produced and directed the film, apparently even financed some of it himself tells me all I need to know about his intentions. Even Manohla Dargis of The New York Times has written that it "feels far more about Mr. Kechiche's desires than anything else".

I feel awful for Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos for having to endure this "horrible" 6 month shoot and for having to work with this director, of whom they have said they would never work with again. They deserved better than this because their performances are incredible given the situation that they had to work in.

And finally, I also feel bad for the characters Adèle and Emma, their story deserved so much better than this.

Cinematic orgasm. Cinematic. Orgasm. Put the words together and separately, it does not matter actually. I was watching the film with a sense of bitten apricot in my mouth, so from time to time I kept checking if indeed something was dripping from my lips . In any case, you can feel all kinds of dripping in this garden of delight and from many different angles. A deep diving into puberty, into the raw desires of youth, above the thunderous victory of human need. Adele is the personification of youth, just in time when it begins to grown. That exact moment when the juices of love are instantly aggressive and the human body seems like a fruit with the heart as a kernel. When you are in the midst of immortality, gaining the illusion of eternity, just before the fruit is eaten, shortly before the kernel sits at your neck with the bitter taste of rejection, while you greedily swallow life, which seems so inexhaustible. I left my local cinema with the feeling of a hot lump in my throat and stomach. As a teenager in love and disappointed at the same time. And from that moment I keep seeing little hearts and stars everywhere. I keep seeing Adele everywhere.

I certainly blinked when I found out this movie was 3 hours long, especially considering that it won the Palm d'Or where many winners have a slow and painful plot. This movie on the other hand does a great job keeping every scene riveting through great dialog and riveting emotions. I would compare many of the scenes in this movie to Tarantino scenes where scenes take on a life of their own. Cleverness and awkwardness were dispersed in a way to make it seem real and ultimately human. I felt wonderfully disappointed when certain scenes ended. The actresses held nothing back in their body language and added much to the moment-to-moment importance of their character development.

Seldom will you find, such adoration, unrefined, as a beautiful romance, takes us with it on its dance, though the rocks that taunt us all, cascade, descend, to cover all, but the passion and desire, leave you breathless and on fire!!!

Perfect, in almost every way.

This is a very tender , passionate tale of young love that I found fascinating . The three hours will simply fly by as you follow the life of Adele who falls in love with an arty student . The lead actress is stunning in both looks and believability , and you are swept along with her on her journey . This is acting on the edge...powerful and dramatic...worthy of many awards . The story rattles along at pace , and hardly has time to fully explore all the issues that are on show . Adeles family and friends for example simply disappear after a while , which was odd , as they were an important part of the anti-lesbian feeling present early on in the film . Nonetheless , its almost impossible to find fault . I didn't shed a tear at any stage (but came close a few times ) . The now infamous sex scenes were in my opinion incredibly moving and central to the plot (however they were rather long...men will be used more to a "Wham Bam 30 seconds approach " ! ) You should all go to see this ...male and female alike...though perhaps don't take your Mother !

Maybe it's the hype. Hype always builds up your expectations. And the more you allow your expectations to build up, they're likely to be disappointed. But in the case of 'La vie d'Adèle', I'm pretty sure that this is not all to it, since I watched it with a Lesbian friend. And while it left me - a gay man in his 40s - totally indifferent, she hated it. This was supposed to be my 'save-the-best-for-last' movie of the year. Now it's pretty much my stinker of the year. Sure, I've watched far worse movies in 2013. I just haven't watched anything which disappointed me to such an extent.

We spent a couple of hours after the film discussing just what we didn't like about it. For her, the answer was easy because she owns the graphic novel by Julie Maroh on which it's based. I've read it meanwhile and understand her reservations. The book follows Adèle's diary and is therefore more introspective and emotional than the film. The reader gets a better idea how much time passes. The characters are drawn as normal women, decidedly less pretty than the actresses. The ending is completely different, much more tragical and hard-hitting - it's a mystery to me why Kechiche decided to change the story to such an extent.

And the sex in the book is - lyrical, that being what infuriated my friend most about the film. According to her, all that humping and moaning is just what she expected a straight male director to come up with - a fantasy of what Lesbian sex is like. Only women would get it right, like Donna Deitch in the classic 'Desert Hearts', or Lisa Cholodenko in 'High Art', or Kimberly Peirce in 'Boys don't cry'. The author Julie Maroh expressed a similar criticism, describing the sex scene as ridiculous.

I understand these frustrations since what I halfway expected to be a Lesbian 'Weekend', i.e. a film that takes the sensationalism out of gay sex and focuses on love, highlights the sex to push for controversy / interest with straight audiences. That's the only explanation I find for giving both female leads the best actress award at Cannes, even though Adèle Exarchopoulos has about three times as much screen time. People think it's courageous to show gay sex, so nobody cares if that depiction is actually accurate. Saying that the film expresses how natural gay sex is doesn't really help when you're gay - since we know that already, thank you very much.

Then again, the film won the Palme d'Or clearly for political reasons, since at the time there was a highly embarrassing campaign against gay marriage in France. So maybe homosexuals still have to welcome the lesser of two evils, condescending sympathy over pseudo-religious ignorance or downright hatred - but oh what a depressing thought that is. When such a thing happens to me - hearing 'watching that and that film made me totally understand that being gay is normal' - I'd like to respond 'that's like telling a black person you've seen '12 Years a Slave' and now understand what it means to be black'. But I don't because people who get this wouldn't make such remarks in the first place. They'd already understand that film is always an interpretation of reality, never reality itself.

However, my indifference to the film is more based on liking Kechiche's previous film 'Black Venus' a whole lot more. It showed all the ugliness of typical European racism (the 'scientific' kind), being about a Herero woman in the 19th century who is at first turned into a circus attraction, then an object of study, and finally - inevitably - a prostitute. What made this film so great was that it wasn't as much about a black woman stoically suffering her fate, but us Europeans with our ongoing tendency to categorize and thereby control all things foreign - the exact opposite of this film, where the spectator sees everything through Adèle's eyes, so if you don't buy into her views, you lose the movie (or the movie loses you).

All of this doesn't make 'La vie d'Adèle' a bad film, it's still a strong love story owing to the source material, but I can't help but wonder what so many people see in it. The performances may be intense, but they're not convincing if you've been in its character's shoes - and according to the actresses' statements it would seem that their intensity owes a lot to the director's erratic on-set behavior. Maybe if you don't watch many European films, or have never seen a Lesbian-themed film before, you can end up being taken so aback by the sex scenes - which, credit where credit is due, are carefully embedded in the story - that you'll go 'wow'. But if you're a cineast, if you know French film, if you know the LGBT film canon, or if you're just plain gay, then you can't help but wonder what all the fuss is about - and if the wonderful graphic novel wouldn't have turned out far more impressive, had it been adapted by a woman instead.

This film will put a spell on you. A beautifully told story of falling in and out of love and everything in between. Mesmerising performances by the two leads.

I put off seeing this for the longest time because of the three hour run time, but tonight I finally sat down and checked out this movie, which so many people have raved about. Yeah, about that...

Aside from the fact that I almost turned off the movie ten minutes in because I have a severe aversion to open-mouthed chewing (indeed, the main character does pretty much everything open-mouthed in this flick--she reminded me of Napoleon Dynamite) AND the fact that when all was said and done this wasn't much different than a large percentage of foreign LGBT flicks except that it took three hours to get to a rather predictable ending, this was not a terrible movie. Long and occasionally slow, yes. But not terrible. I even shed a tear or two, and those don't come easy for me when watching movies, so at least there's that.

One last possible gripe is I'm not sure how I feel about the way bisexuality is presented in this movie. But when I look at it as this one particular situation between this one particular fictional couple, it sits a little better with me.

Overall, I'd say it's definitely worth watching. I'll probably even watch it again someday, though I'll be making use of the fast forward button when I do.

Blue is the Warmest Color, was a painful to watch movie, and not for the right reasons. This movie was completely lukewarm, and really did not have anything to justify it being made into a movie. It was pretty well just a base, non creative love story with the only things changed being its now about some lesbians, with gratuitous nudity thrown in and conversations about art throughout the film.

I think the major problem with this film was not the actresses or the premise, it was the lacklustre hack of a director, who is clearly just some straight guy making a movie on what is mainly accepted to be a love story and trying to be edgy. There really is no food for thought in this film, and the storyline is almost bordering on one that would be equal to a porn movie.

There was no *true* conflict or struggle in the film. The movies "Brokeback Mountain" and "Boys Don't Cry" are far superior to this movie, and deal with similar story lines.

Now what did provide food for thought was Adèle Exarchopoulos's role in all of this. While the movie storyline was utterly forgettable, what did somewhat hold my attention was wondering what kind of effect the making of this movie had on this young, innocent girl. I hope she gets recognized, as she did a great job, and has shown to be willing and quite malleable, unfortunately she was caught up in a lacklustre storyline, with a b-movie script.

The director is someone who is just trying to imitate actual artistic and deep movies, while throwing in nudity to try and wriggle his way into being noticed. The reason I am coming down so hard is because I was expecting at least a good movie, but within the last hour and half (of a 3 hour film) the movie consistently got worse and worse. The movie fully consists of teaching in a classroom, talking about art, and sex/kissing.

If you want an edgy, nonrated/nc-17 movie then watch "Nymphomaniac," or "Enter the Void," of which the latter, interestingly enough, is playing in this movie during the theatre scene.

Worse movie I have seen in a long time...

I don't understand the high appeal of this movie. It's three hours long, three very long and drawn out hours. The movie is basically watching a teen slowly find love and come of age, very slowly. The film takes it's time to show the main characters life before meeting the girl that turns her into a woman. Once we painfully get through the beginning of the film, things finally pick up a little. Unfortunately after watching the slow relationship build, and take place, the movie then crumbles into a depressing ending. The move does not make you feel good at the end. If anything it feels exhausting to watch the main character suffer through everything to just end up where she ends up.

I did hear that one of the major appeals to the film was the graphic lesbian sex, but honestly, I've seen better. It feels very staged and its missing emotion. There's lots of sex in the movie, which is nice, and might appeal to a man's eyes. But watching the movie as a woman, there needs to be more emotion in it.

I think too, because the movie is a forign french film, it does get exhausting reading subtitles throughout the entire movie.