Adele's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. Read more …
In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.
Sometimes compelling but frankly, sometimes also a bit of a plod.
This is exquisite, vital and very brave filmmaking.
At its best, Blue... throbs with a vivid sense of real life and appears to be propelled forward by its characters' emotions and choices.
Fearless, relatable and beautiful, this is one of the year’s best. Holding you so close for so long, you won’t want to break free.
Anchored by two of the most natural, committed performances you’ll ever see, Blue Is The Warmest Colour is the most moving love story of the year.
Director Abdellatif Kechiche’s camera brilliantly demonstrates how love feels.
Blue Is the Warmest Colour really is an outstanding film and the performances from Exarchopoulos and Séydoux make other people's acting look very weak.
At times, Blue is the Warmest Colour will break your heart in two. You will fall victim to its tragic, terrifying beauty – that I can gladly guarantee you.
Over the course of three hours, the film achieves a stark emotional realism that’s striking at first but ultimately suggests that there’s nothing special or unique about the lives of its characters. It’s this – rather than the explicitness of the sex scenes – that makes it feel genuinely radical.
What does make Blue different though, is the beauty in which the story is told and the tender and passionate intimacy which seeps from the screen.
Like love, it is less potent once the moment has passed.
Certainly the performances by Léa Seydoux (already an important screen presence) and newcomer Adèle Exarchopoulos are extraordinary. Their portrayal of a blossoming, fragmenting relationship is shot through with genuine grace and conviction even when the film itself descends into indulgence.
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