Blue Is The Warmest Color (2013)
Average Rating: 8.9/10
Reviews Counted: 22
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 1
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Average Rating: 9.8/10
Critic Reviews: 7
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BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR centers on a 15-year-old girl named Adèle (Exarchopoulos) who is climbing to adulthood and dreams of experiencing her first love. A handsome male classmate falls for her hard, but an unsettling erotic reverie upsets the romance before it begins. Adèle imagines that the mysterious, blue-haired girl she encountered in the street slips into her bed and possesses her with an overwhelming pleasure. That blue-haired girl is a confident older art student named Emma (Seydoux),
Oct 25, 2013 Limited
IFC Films
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Cast
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Léa Seydoux
Emma -
Adèle Exarchopoulos
Adele -
Salim Kechiouche
Samir -
Mona Walravens
Lise -
Jeremie Laheurte
Thomas -
Alma Jodorowsky
Beatrice -
Catherine Salée
Adele's Mother -
Fanny Maurin
Amelie -
Benjamin Siksou
Antoine -
Sandor Funtek
Valentin -
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The movie feels far more about Mr. Kechiche's desires than anything else.
Top CriticA sprawling, emotionally absorbing tale of young love from Franco-Tunisian auteur Abdellatif Kechiche.
It's a measure of the honesty and generosity of Kechiche's storytelling that the picture's explicit sexuality and extreme running time feel consistent with his raw, sensual embrace of all aspects of life.
A shattering masterpiece about sexual awakening, heartbreak, and self-discovery.
If I can't quite get beyond a kind of clinical admiration for the film, it's due to Kechiche's unadorned vérité aesthetic, a cinema consciously bereft of the poetic flourish-for me a fault, for others a benefit.
If you don't see yourself in its depiction of intense emotion I both envy and pity you.
Abdellatif Kechiche reveals through his sense of composition, and collaboration with his remarkable actresses, a sensitivity to emotional nuance that's striking.
[VIDEO ESSAY] "Blue is the Warmest Color" is a monumental cinematic achievement that must be experienced by anyone passionate about film.
It is a lovely movie, albeit one which is so thorough and single-minded in intent, that it doesn't really leave anything much to ponder after the lights have gone up.
Though nobody states it outright, "Blue is the Warmest Color" elegantly tussles with the idea of reconciling desire with other factors involved in the cultivation of healthy companionship.
Blue Is The Warmest Color is familiar in its broad outline but bracingly specific in its minute details, and it traffics in feelings so raw that they're almost painful to observe.
The trajectory of life in "Blue Is the Warmest Color" is grounded in the normalcy of the ordinary, and Kechiche depicts love of any persuasion as the stuff of everyday.
The bedroom scenes are to be taken in the context of an emotionally and psychologically rich drama that touches more nerves, more satisfyingly, than most realist narrative manages.
Warmest Colour gets closer to accurately charting the dynamics of romantic love than any picture in recent memory.
Forget the on-screen sex, it's the emotions that are too explicit.
A beautiful, wise, erotic, devastating love story.
Committed performances, finely nuanced filmmaking choices and an absorbingly epic scope all add up to something quite extraordinary.
Kechiche captures the ecstatic highs and punishing lows of matters of the heart with piercing proficiency.
You realise the film has won your heart without ever really asking for it, and you leave the cinema utterly lovesick.
This is absolute cinema, absolute characterization, absolute storytelling, controlled and compassionate, and bursting with empathy and life...this is really the kind of film we come to Cannes in hopes of discovering.
Audience Reviews for Blue Is The Warmest Color
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Abdel Kechiche really knows how to direct films. To me, "Blue Is The Warmest Colour" is what Godard's "Breathless" was to the peopl of the 1960's; it's revolutionary. The cinematic choices are all justified; from the beautiful cinematography to the darkly humorous screenplay. Much controversy surrounds the film, though, especially the long and constant sex scenes, which got the film an NC-17 rating. I believe that Kechiche made a concious decision to add trhis into the film, and that these really add to the film, in the way that it accentuates, even more, the passion between the two lead characters, Adele and Emma. So do I think personally that it was necesarry to make this film NC-17 material ? Without a question, the film wouldn't be nearly as powerful, or intriguing without the,. Do I believe it should've been as long as it was ? Of course, I wish it would've been longer. "Blue Is The Warmest Colour" has the same effect as "The Godfather" and "Gone With The Wind," it keeps you mesmerizingly engaged. And yes, I really did just compare this to two timeless classics, because this film is just as influential and legendary.
If it wasn't clear enough in the rest of the review, in conclusion, I am in love with this film. I'm in love with the characters, the costumes, the screenplay, the cinematography, but most of all, the story that's told. This film holds the serene beauty that is only present in very select films (Like the cinematography in Terrence Malick's films). Everybody should experience thsi film, but do I believe it'll do great at the box office ? Not a chance in hell; it's a three hour foreign film. But were legends like Jean-Luc Godard or Francois Truffaut ever box office hits ? No they weren't, but fifty years later, their work is still relevant and appreciated within the realy of film. Kechiche is a master of film, much like Michael Haneke was with "Amour" just last year. It's not a film for everyon, but if you appreciate the art in cinema, or call yourself a "movie buff," this is a must see, even if you feel no personal connection, or interest in the story itself.
P.S. I apologize for my temporary leave from reviews, but this is my faliant return, and comeback to the world of RottenTomatoes. Because of this film, I am back on track !
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Abdel Kechiche really knows how to direct films. To me, "Blue Is The Warmest Colour" is what Godard's "Breathless" was to the peopl of the 1960's; it's revolutionary. The cinematic choices are all justified; from the beautiful cinematography to the darkly humorous screenplay. Much controversy surrounds the film, though, especially the long and constant sex scenes, which got the film an NC-17 rating. I believe that Kechiche made a concious decision to add trhis into the film, and that these really add to the film, in the way that it accentuates, even more, the passion between the two lead characters, Adele and Emma. So do I think personally that it was necesarry to make this film NC-17 material ? Without a question, the film wouldn't be nearly as powerful, or intriguing without the,. Do I believe it should've been as long as it was ? Of course, I wish it would've been longer. "Blue Is The Warmest Colour" has the same effect as "The Godfather" and "Gone With The Wind," it keeps you mesmerizingly engaged. And yes, I really did just compare this to two timeless classics, because this film is just as influential and legendary.
If it wasn't clear enough in the rest of the review, in conclusion, I am in love with this film. I'm in love with the characters, the costumes, the screenplay, the cinematography, but most of all, the story that's told. This film holds the serene beauty that is only present in very select films (Like the cinematography in Terrence Malick's films). Everybody should experience thsi film, but do I believe it'll do great at the box office ? Not a chance in hell; it's a three hour foreign film. But were legends like Jean-Luc Godard or Francois Truffaut ever box office hits ? No they weren't, but fifty years later, their work is still relevant and appreciated within the realy of film. Kechiche is a master of film, much like Michael Haneke was with "Amour" just last year. It's not a film for everyon, but if you appreciate the art in cinema, or call yourself a "movie buff," this is a must see, even if you feel no personal connection, or interest in the story itself.
P.S. I apologize for my temporary leave from reviews, but this is my faliant return, and comeback to the world of RottenTomatoes. Because of this film, I am back on track !