This movie received glowing reviews by the lgbt community, so I finally gave it a chance. It begins realistically, with a girl thinking she's straight, and having typical experiences. Her sexual awakening is one that can be appreciated. That being said, I grew bored with it. I am unfortunately disappointed with this movie.

I'll grant you, soft-core, but porn all the same.First off, I found this film to be extremely exploitative. The story of two Lesbians is a vehicle for some extremely (I would underline that and put it in all caps) gratuitous sex scenes, filmed by a director who is, to my knowledge, straight.Now, I shall grant the few readers of this that, in most circumstances, that is not a good ground to dismiss something as exploitation, but in light of the two actresses claims of harassment during the shooting and the nearly pornographic content of the film (no, seriously, don't show this to your parents), I make my case there.The film graphic content of this film also has the, I assume, unintended consequence of completely alienating me, personally, from this supposed "intimate and heartfelt" relationship. It's hard to think of intimacy and closeness when a ten minute scene of the two actresses performing various lesbian sex acts is thrown in your face.Performance-wise, I preferred Léa Seydoux's performance, as she at least gave an expressive performance. Adèle Exarchopoulos might as well have been wearing a mask, because the only time I noticed her emoting was when tears were coming out of her eyes.The editing at points seemed rather dissonant, with a couple of these sex scenes being accompanied with music that would signify something romantic à la most Hollywood movies. It has a strange disconnect for me in these scenes, again, mostly because of their graphic content.In terms of script-writing it was alright. It stuck pretty closely to the Hollywood three-act structure, so it would have been pretty hard to mess that up, but, while I can't say I was bored, I am still perplexed as to why this movie was three hours long.And that's about all I want to say about this film.Exploitative, kinda hypocritical, alright screenplay, some decent acting.

While sitting and waiting at the Paris airport, browsing for some YouTube videos to watch, I've stumbled upon an old 2007 documentary The Universe (S02E01 "Alien Planets"). I thought about the title of this movie when at some point they said: "As the star wobbles around, light waves appear to shift in frequency as the object emitting them comes toward or away from you. The light from an object moving toward you will look slightly bluer, and a light from an object moving away from you will look slightly redder".So I thought that Blue Is The Warmest Color because it is the closest <3.

A film with so much feeling, love, rejection, happiness and sadness. A story that boils with passion and makes my heart thump, wishing I could be the one to fall in love. This film captures a rawness that makes it such a cinematic experience and sadly foreign to American film. It makes me day dream again thank you Abdellatif Keckiche for an amazing film.