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…

Abdellatif Kechiche’s Palme d’Or winning film has been constantly overshadowed, first by its controversial and explicit sex scenes and then by the accusations of Kechiche’s questionable practices by his own cast and crew. It is a shame that the discussion has shifted away from the obvious qualities that Blue is the Warmest Colour possesses as this is one of the most intimate and nakedly honest coming-of-age dramas of recent years.

The original French title - La vie d'Adèle - Chapitres 1 et 2 - perfectly captures the essence of the film. It is merely two short chapters in the life of the film’s protagonist, Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos), on her journey of self-discovery. Adèle is an awkward yet hungry teenager who…

Criterion Collection Spine #695
(Foreign language film)

Come along for an up close, emotionally raw and personal journey of a young French girl blossoming into an adult.

"But I have infinite tenderness for you. I always will. My whole life."

Quip of the review: Any girl who mentions that she loves Scorsese and Kubrick films during a conversation at a bar is a keeper!

I am guessing that most people come into this sprawling romantic epic knowing the stigma that is attached to, with its intense pornographic level sex scenes. And while there are a couple of them in there, and they are every bit as explicit as you have heard, they also feel 100% earned and authentic.

This powerful…

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…