An alert, inquisitive 17-year-old, Adèle (Exarchopoulos) is hungering for fireworks, fatedness, the coup de foudre of the great literature she adores. She stumbles into just that, in a glancing ...

The tender lesbian romance “Blue is the Warmest Color: The Life of Adele” won the hearts of the 66th Cannes Film Festival, taking its top honor, the Palme d’Or. The jury, headed by Steven Spielberg, ...

The moral of “Blue Is the Warmest Color” is simple: Sex without love is nothing; life without love is even less. French filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche’s story of sexual awakening and real love ...

Sometimes when I hear the hateful folks at the Westboro Baptist Church are in a lather over some film, I just have to see it. Films like the controversial hit Blue Is the Warmest Color. Even if it is ...

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The Reel Story: This French coming-of-age/sexual awakening film is a rarity. It's raw, natural and ringing so true that it feels like we are intimately watching the lives of its two young women.