Anew French film about women in love embraces graphic sex, and an NC-17 rating 'Blue Is the Warmest Color' (NC-17) Sundance Selects/IFC FOLLOW FILM CRITIC STEPHEN WHITTY ONLINE.
Thesex in the NC-17 French film Blue Is the Warmest Color is exhausting, so it probably comes as no surprise that the movie used a lot of prosthetics. "We had fake pussies on. "We had fake BlueIs the Warmest Color should have been one of the feel-good stories of the fall. A moving three-hour drama about a young woman named Adèle's (Adèle Exarchopoulos) coming-of-age while Luckyfor this reporter, the more intimidating of the two leads in Palme d'Or winner "Blue Is the Warmest Color," Lea Seydoux, was too busy filming to attend the reception in her honor onLike"Eleanor Rigby", "Blue is the Warmest Color" could have been shorter and tighter. Although I suppose one argument for the length is that adolescence seems like an interminable emotional boiling pot, but as the film's French title, "La Vie d'Adele- Chapitres 1 & 2", reminds us, this story forms just chapter one and two of
ByBetsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times Film Critic. Oct. 24, 2013 3:10 PM PT. The moral of "Blue Is the Warmest Color" is simple: Sex without love is nothing; life without love is even less421lVV.