10 Amazing Acting Performances To Watch On Netflix

French actresses Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos became the first performers to be granted the Palme d’Or, when their phenomenal turns in Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue Is The Warmest Colour where awarded the prize along with the film itself.

The judging panel, which included Steven Spielberg and Ang Lee, saw fit to reward two performances of stunning naturalism with an award usually only reserved for directors, making Seydoux and Exarchopoulos the only women—other than director Jane Campion—to have held Cannes’ top prize.

Seydoux is the bohemian yin to Exarchopoulos’ naïve yang, and together they embark on a deeply sexual odyssey that is as physically rewarding as it is emotionally devastating. The sex scenes are as intense as you've heard, and the pair's last scene together captures the last throes of a love-long-gone better than any other in recent memory.