Blue Is the Warmest Color

Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013) starring Adele Exarchopoulos, Lea Seydoux. A sort of coming of age story about a high-school girl named Adele (Exarchopoulos) who finds that she is more attracted to girls than to boys. She falls in love with a fourth-year college student with blue hair named Emma (Seydoux), and they enter into an intense relationship which involves showing graphic lesbian sex scenes lasting several minutes. Eventually, though, Adele cheats by sleeping with a man, and Emma throws her out. The emotions shown by both actresses are very strong, and Adele, although she is the cheater, is heartbroken. Emma was The One for her, and Adele has great difficulty moving on. Even at nearly three hours, the movie does not seem too long. In fact, it barely sketches years of their relationship. The only quibble I have is that the actresses don't noticeably age, even with the passage of several years through the film. But this can be forgiven when a movie shows such raw emotion so convincingly, and Blue Is the Warmest Color is a film which  sticks with you long after the closing credits run. It's in French, with English subtitles. Grade: A-