Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)
To love.
Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.
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| Type | Movie |
|---|---|
| Released | 9 October 2013 |
| Genre | Romance, Drama |
| Director | Abdellatif Kechiche |
| Starring | Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos and Salim Kéchiouche |
| Runtime | 180 min |
| Rated | NC-17 |
| Scores | Rotten Tomatoes (average) 8.1/10 · Rotten Tomatoes 88% · Metacritic 90/100 · IMDb 7.6/10 · TMDB users 7.1/10 |
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| Australia | In Australia, Blue Is the Warmest Color is available on Foxtel. |
| South Korea | In South Korea, Blue Is the Warmest Color is available on Netflix for ₩13500 a month and Tving for ₩10900 a month. |
| Spain | In Spain, Blue Is the Warmest Color is available on Filmin for €9.99 a month. |
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What kind of watch this is
Blue Is the Warmest Color is a 2013 romance drama that runs 180 minutes. Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche, it follows Adèle as she meets Emma, a woman with blue hair, and navigates the messy process of growing up. The film does not rush. It lets the relationship breathe, stumble, and shift in real time. You are not here for quick answers. You are here for the long, unfiltered look at what it means to find yourself in another person. It is a heavy, honest watch.
What the critics said
Critics leaned hard into the praise. Rotten Tomatoes sits at 88%, with an 8.1/10 average from rated reviews. Metacritic lands on a 90/100 Metascore, a figure it files under universal acclaim. Robbie Collin of The Daily Telegraph awarded five stars, noting the film is an "extraordinary, prolonged popping-candy explosion of pleasure." Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian called it "genuinely passionate film-making" and upgraded his rating to five stars. More than 40 critics named it among the ten best of 2013.
Awards
Blue Is the Warmest Color won 11 awards from 25 nominations. The headline prize was the 2013 Palme d'Or, a first for a film adapted from a graphic novel. It also took the Louis Delluc Prize and the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes. Adèle Exarchopoulos won the César for Most Promising Actress. The film collected multiple Best Foreign Language Film honors, including from the Broadcast Film Critics Association. It swept the board, then walked away.
What came next for the cast
Léa Seydoux had already traded French cinema for Hollywood blockbusters like Inglourious Basterds and Mission: Impossible. Afterward, she appeared in The Grand Budapest Hotel and the Dune franchise. Adèle Exarchopoulos moved from smaller roles like The Round Up to projects such as The Animal Kingdom and Beating Hearts. Aurélien Recoing shifted from The Horde to Black Box. The credits cannot say this film caused that shift. They can only list what followed.
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Sources
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- Wikidata Q11648811 — review scores, box office and awards (CC0)
- “Blue Is the Warmest Colour” on Wikipedia, by its contributors (history) — reception, audience figures and legacy, summarised and adapted here under CC BY-SA 4.0
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