Blue Is the Warmest Color

"This isn't a film, this is an experience, this is a slice of life. A big, brutal, honest, and sincere slice of life."

"I enjoyed the raw acting of the main character throughout. She showed depths of emotion and carries an otherwise iffy, cliché storyline. I am disappointed by the rumors of the treatment of the actresses and actors during filming. For a similar take, without all of the egregious sex scenes, I'd recommend Lost & Delirious (2001)."

"+ If this movie is anything, it's raw. There are very few filters in terms of mental-emotional portrayals of the two main characters. The character Adele is presented in such a lonely, melancholy way, first being a closeted lesbian and then later forming an intense attachment to Emma. It's as much a portrait of a person trying to discover who they are as it is a love story. In fact, I would suggest that it is more of an expression of a person's inner pain as it is about love. The performances are what mainly sell this nearly 3-hour drama. These two ladies deserve some serious recognition for the work they put in. Such vulnerable performances aren't all that common these days. - This movie has roughly four sex scenes, all of them explicit, and one of them way too long. To be fair I understood the reason for the first and the second. The former was about Adele wondering if she could feel something for a man, and the latter was about going from a budding lesbian sexual desire to portraying it in full bloom, but did the second one have to go on for so long? And did we need the last ones at all? It makes it feel very weird that it was directed by a man, and surprises me that the actresses agreed to film it in that way. I'm not against sex scenes, even those that are presented in a very raw way, but this felt unnecessary. It gets even weirder when you consider that there might be even more footage that wasn't used. It goes on really long, but I have a difficult time believing they got EVERYTHING on the first take. Also the movie itself was too long and the editing style didn't help it flow any better. More like cuts into moments of a person's life rather than a movement of it. It doesn't ruin the story, but it's hard to justify the length. The pros don't just outweigh the cons in terms of quantity. The stuff that works REALLY works."

"Terrible movie."

"I nearly stopped this movie half way through. It just doesn't have a plot. It follows this relationship that fails and just ends. I understand it's a story of adele's life but I just feel like it's missing something huge. "

"i really loved it BUT WHY IS HER HAIR ALWAYS IN HER MOUTH"

"Sex scene is really long, and a bit much. It's not a very romantic scene"

"It’s gay but not that good, sad af ending "

"I found the movie to be overrated, too long, and made for the male gaze. The sex was explicit, but very awkward and completely unrealistic. The two leads were great, and from what I read about what the director put them through I find no fault in their performances, but what could have been an amazing film turned into whatever the hell I watched for 3 hours."

"you can tell it was made by a man"