Blue Is the Warmest Color

2013 ‘La Vie d'Adèle - Chapitres 1 et 2’ Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche

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Adèle'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. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.

Adèle Exarchopoulos Léa Seydoux Salim Kechiouche Aurélien Recoing Catherine Salée Benjamin Siksou Mona Walravens Jérémie Laheurte Alma Jodorowsky Anne Loiret Benoît Pilot Sandor Funtek Maelys Cabezon Fanny Maurin Samir Bella Tom Hurier Manon Piette Quentin Médrinal Peter Assogbavi Wisdom Ayanou Philippe Potier Virginie Morgny Stéphane Mercoyrol Lucie Bibal Baya Rehaz Marilyne Chanaud Camille Rutherford Michael Skal Sandrine Paraire Show All…

Alternative Titles

La Vie d'Adèle, 가장 따뜻한 색, 블루, Blue Is the Warmest Colour

drama romance

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Review by Sally Jane Black 18

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

The heavy criticisms of this film against its straight male gaze are clearly justified. While there are surely women who enjoy those scenes as well, the context certainly reveals that these scenes were made with the prurient desires of cishet men in mind. The improbability of some of the scenes shows who this is for. And that detracts heavily from the film, but the truth is, it's more than just the sex scenes.
This is the lesbian Call Me By Your Name.
An underage girl--that the film makes sure we know is underage--begins a relationship with an older woman, and in the end, she's crushed by it. It's melancholy and supposedly sweet and about maturation and love and... blah. Knowing…
Review by Todd Gaines ★★★★½ 62

The story of a young girl named Adèle who's rolling in the deep of love. Fuckin' class. Thomas is no Brad Pitt. Yummy bolognese! Autobus chit-chat. Gypsy music is the shit. Blue-hair-stare. Lunch and a movie. An erotic dream. A sex-cop. A fuck. After-coutis-cuddling. A blue-bench break-up. Fuckin' protesters. Adèle's mysterious side. Schoolyard tonsil-hockey. Alice's ass. Bathroom rejection. Love has no gender. Bull-Dyke-Beer. A fun day at the park. Bob Marley was a cool mother fucker. When was the first time you tasted a girl? 7 minutes in Heaven. Dancing in the streets. Fuckin' parents. Here's to love. Proof eating oysters makes you want to fuck. A surprise birthday party. The way Emma smiles. Philosophy is so fuckin' awesome. Adèle's…
Review by coldplayfan ½ 9

pretty good but not on coldplay levels of good. I really like a lot the sex scenes were interesting and stuff but i'd honestly rather listen to coldplay, at the beginning of the movie these is a guy drumming so your thinking "oh nice now there's going to be coldplay" but really there isn't any and then you see a guy in high school and your thinking that he's gonna grow up to be Chris Martin from coldplay but they didn't show that crucial part of the storyline and you know that the main girl will become Rihanna and do a colab song with coldplay but they don't show that, honestly I like this movie better then Ghost Stories but not as much as X&Y or A Rush of Blood to the Head, she's crying in one scene and you think they're going to play "every tear is a waterfall" but NO...... again the movie has to fuck with us
Review by bianca ½ 7

i didn't want to watch this when i was younger because i thought it was going to turn me into a lesbian and now i'm watching it because I AM a lesbian! i love this character development
with that being said, i fucking hated it. my main problem was the unnecessary sex scenes. i mean, they do nothing for the plot. that's when you know it was directed by a straight man for straight men.
abdellatif was recently accused of sexual assault, by the way. the guy who made lea seydoux feel like a prostitute??? the man who made both lea and adele humiliated??? who would've thought!
this is not the representation we deserve.
Review by katie ★★★★★

this movie kills me. it literally breaks me. there is no film about love better than this. nothing. i'm so sad.

"But I have infinite tenderness for you. I always will. My whole life."
Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★★ 21

That wasn't a film, that was an experience, that was a slice of life.
A big, brutal, honest and sincere slice of life.
Review by YI JIAN ★★★★★ 11

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We usually associate love with the color red (thanks to Wong Kar Wai, maybe). But for Adele, love came to her as short blue hair. Since then, almost everywhere she looked, she saw blue. Flowers stood out more, jeans were highlighted, the sky devoured her vision. So if she considers blue as the warmest color, who are we to correct her? The film invites us to see the world through Adele's eyes, and feel the infinite tenderness that she received from Emma. Whenever there's an emotional gap between the couple, the color fades. When they touch, the entire city seems to be painted over. It's evident that Emma's influence on Adele is absolute, now imagine that influence being forcefully ripped…
Review by 𝑤𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟 ★★★ 8

i have infinite tenderness for you
goddamn they both ate each other’s ass like they was fucking starving 😳
Review by aliyah ★ 4

the fact that this film is rated so high tells us EXACTLY what we need to know about lgbt representation in mainstream media because i cannot find one good thing to say about this film
Review by Evan ★★★★½ 2

Blue Is the Warmest Color is an outstanding film about a girl who is trying to find herself. It's a coming of age film that is like nothing I've ever seen. This is truly a beautiful movie. I almost can't even call this a film because it seemed so real. Honestly, I felt like I was standing right on the side seeing everything unfold in person. These two women give the most sincere and honest performances that I have ever seen. Adele Exarchopoulos gives the BEST female performance of 2013. She was seriously beyond great. Lea Seydoux was outstanding as well.
Everything looked amazing; the camerawork and shots were something else. It added so much to the movie. The way…
Review by Milez Das ★★★★★ 3

I have infinite tenderness for you. Always will. For life long... As these words are spoken to Adèle by Emma I reflect back to the first frame of the movie.
In the first chapter of La Vie d'Adèle, we see Adèle confused and trying to figure out what she is and wants. At the start of the movie in her first class, the teacher is explaining about the first sight of love. the first look and you know you have fallen for that person. One of the student explains what it meant to him as he says regret for not speaking to that person. These two things become an entirety of this movie and Life of Adèle.
When she is…
Review by 👽 Zara 👽 ★★★★½ 6

sorry only lesbians can wear blue now i don't make the rules

Recent reviews

Review by Sammy Bilton ★★½

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

You could cut this film down to 100 minutes and it would be far more watchable.
The narrative structure is horrendous. The sex scenes were overly pornographic.
The two lead performances were admittedly excellent. *That* argument scene saves the entire second half from falling apart.
Review by olaiqa ★★½

3 hour long porn
Review by catmaid ★

so fucking bad. sex scenes an hour long just for them to skip the entire gay part of the relationship. hope the director dies
Review by analuizassl ★

definitely this lesbian movie is the worst that I've seen in my life!!!!!
Review by poids_lourd

J'ai vu que le best of. Doums tu t'es mis bien mon salaud.
Review by youreameanguy ★

this is just porn... please baby lesbians watch anything else
Review by keepin_it_ReeL ★★★★½

After three hours of this film, I honestly feel like I've known Adele my whole life and I cant stop thinking about where her life will go next.
Review by Hümeyra ★★★½

Başlarken biraz ön yargılıydım klasik LGBTİ filmidir diye, ama üç saat duraksız izledim. Duygu aktarımı ve yoğunluğu, git geller, sevişme sahneleri, Adèle'in bakışları ve güzelliği etkiledi epey, kadında yunan cazibesi var. Umursamaz tavrı ve sürekli hafif açık duran ağzı garip ve kendine has bir çekicilik katmış.
Review by Torinsky ★★

Sin conocer la novela gráfica en la que se basa me parece una película larga, lenta y bastante pesada. Los diálogos son banales. La representación del entorno LGTB me parece muy simplista y cargada de clichés. Creo que las vivencias de una persona que descubre su homosexualidad son más complejas.
Review by sophia ★★★½

i am not going to recover from the last hour of this movie. i am in shambles.
Review by surayzsa ★★½

It’s good if its like the first lesbian movie you have ever seen and if you are around my age it is likely that this was the first lesbian centric movie you have ever seen. If you want it to stay great don’t watch any other lesbian films. Also, the eating for Christ’s sake!
Review by Greg Butler ★★★★

The film lasts 3 hours but if you love a film that explores sexuality and acceptance this film delivers in waves. In the film, Adele feels disconnected from her societal norm. She soon comes to realize she is a lesbian and we get to witness her reawakening and journey. There is a lot of extreme sexual situations in the film that, to be honest, is pretty shocking, yet, refreshing.
It didn't feel like 3 hours to me. The cast is beautiful and the acting is great. If you love to dissect the human experience and are open to the thought that we were not meant to be constricted to live like a goldfish in a fishbowl then go see this film.
You won't regret it.
Grade A-
8.7 out of 10