Review of Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013) by Donelson — 13 Oct 2014

An astonishing performance from Adele Exarchopoulos. In each scene, every shot, you see and feel and live her reality. The confusion of our early awakening sexuality, our search for identity and place in the world, the shock of discovery of true passion, losing oneself in another, young love and then deep love. Our identity entwined with another's, the building of balance and union, partnership and security, and endless days of joy.

And from this grows a curiosity about limits, about life, about other possibilities. And then the surprise of carelessness, mistake, and tragedy. The profound pain, the agony that goes on, and never really ends. Longing and wishing and regret, which slowly dulls and is covered by busy-ness and life.

And always, all your life, you remember and ache as you re-live those days, first true love, held inside, honoured but faded.

And I am very lucky, for in this movie I re-lived all of this, all those memories awakened, those feelings and passions and joys, in this masterpiece of acting and writing and camera and direction. Joy and pain and love and life.