Review of Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013) by Dominic S — 08 Jan 2014

This could be summed up as a light porno with a beautiful story of love, forgiveness, and strength.

This film is a French coming of age film about a young girl, Adele, in her late teens who meets another girl, Emma, who defines the phrase "love at first sight" to her.

They first made an innocent glance at each other and later met and talked at a lesbian bar.

Emma has blue hair, she is an artist, but she is not the main character of this film, Adele is.

Adele is an aspiring teacher who meets Emma and after they meet and hang out at multiple times, they eventually become insuperable and decide to live together. They make love constantly (I will talk about this more later in the review).

Later in the film, as Emma is getting more involved with her passion for painting and drawing, Adele begins to feel alone and she makes the huge mistake she eventually regrets later of sleeping with another person, this making Emma crazy mad. Emma kicks Adele out of the house and forces her out of her life.

Adele is heartbroken and feels saddened by the whole situation as well as her mistake. Even though she lives with the guilt and cannot stop crying, she continues to work hard at job as a teacher.

Three years pass and Emma agrees to meet with Adele at a restaurant. They talk, share how their lives are going, and they even tread delicate territory; enough to make them pounce on each other, making out. But they stop themselves and with Emma having a family at last, she insists that there could never be anything between them again. But Emma does admit that she will always feel tenderness towards Adele.

This film is a simple beauty, full of great acting, real looking sex scenes, and beautiful imagery.

Adele Exarchopoulos does an amazing job with her character of Adele. I can tell that she truly taps into the emotion that Adele feels. She also has a very pretty face.

The sex scenes are something else, not to gross you out. I believe there are about three or four sex scenes between Emma and Adele and they get so close to each other that they might as well be having sex. I never actually saw one girls tongue or lips on or near another girl's vagina in the film, but they might as well have been there. For example, Emma's face was deep into Adele's crotch and I couldn't even see anything but her hair. It was intense as well.

For the imagery, one scene stood out the most.

When Emma was hosting a gathering dinner for her art, there was a dancing scene. Adele was dancing with a guy while Emma was smiling and talking with another girl, which Adele could clearly see. At the same time, an old black and white movie was playing on a big screen at the back of the party behind Adele.

As Adele could see Emma having a good time with the other girl, the audience could see Adele's jealous yet saddened face. At the same time, the camera would focus first on Adele's face, then switch the focus to the movie being played in the background, bringing focus to the movie's female character and her saddened face. The camera would switch the focus back and forth between Adele and the woman in the movie and her multiple emotion-filled faces that matched Adele's emotions at times while looking at Emma.

This film is gorgeous and a great love story for today's growing acceptance of gay people.

Blue is the Warmest Color, I give you a 100%.