Abdellatif Kechiche's adaptation of Julie Maroh's graphic novel won the Palme d'Or at 2013's Cannes Film Festival, and was deemed such a significant collaboration between the writer-director and his two lead actresses that they were co-awarded the Palme for the first time in the festival's history. A three-hour drama about the sexual self-discovery of teenager Adele (Adele Exarchopoulos) as she embarks on a relationship with older, blue-haired Emma (Lea Seydoux) could easily have been exploitative, yet what emerges is one of the most honest movies ever made about modern relationships, regardless of the sexual orientation. Kechiche essentially manages to have his cake and eat it, because the movie is sensitive and character-driven yet also features a number of graphic and extremely sexy sex scenes, one of which goes on for upwards of 10 minutes. Still, at its heart this is a movie about love, and few have ever got it this right.
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