The winner of last years Palme dOr at Cannes, Blue is the Warmest Color is a tour de force exploration of a teenage love affair and what it is like to fall in love for the first time. It is not particularly pursuing a gay/lesbian agenda - the film transcends this limitation. However, that doesn't stop the reality that the film was pretty much sold on the fact that its two stars - Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos - were going to be engaging in a fair amount of sexual intercourse, quite graphically. The plot for this one is short and sweet. A young girl named Adele is infatuated with a female student named Emma who has blue hair. They begin a romance and much explicit lesbian sex ensues. And despite the fact that the scenes were apparently simulated and involved fake vaginal areas, everybody still seemed to be blown away. The film has, of course, been called pornographic and has attracted accusations of being male-centric, especially since the actresses have since said that they didn't exactly have a great time filming it. However, Blue is much more than that. The film is about teenage angst and figuring out what you want from life. And hopefully future generations will remember it for more than being that movie that featured two lesbian characters bumping private parts.
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