![]() From the beginning, it settles into a rhythm that makes sense of its length and gives the viewer a deep sense of place. The film is 179 minutes long and needs all 179 minutes. When it won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, Steven Spielberg, hardly a radical, was president of the jury. ![]() ![]() I doubt anyone walks out of "Blue Is the Warmest Color" feeling they've seen a sex movie. But unlike in a film of pornography, the sex is simulated (as in no actual genital contact), and the overall point is not to arouse. On the contrary, if you don't find these scenes erotic, you've probably been dead for at least a week. The scenes, which are explicit and protracted, earned the film an NC-17 rating, and it would be disingenuous to claim they're not erotic. It arrives from France on a wave of controversy for its depictions of lesbian sex between the two young women, played by Lea Seydoux and Adele Exarchopoulos. You may have heard lots of things about this film, but the most important thing to know is that "Blue Is the Warmest Color" is a masterpiece, the first of 2013, and the most emotionally moving film to come along in years. It captures the urgency and ease of first love, its romanticism, its physicality, its desperation, its ecstasy, its complete unbounded giving - and something else, too: the way the memory of first love can linger into later life, the poignancy of that, and the pain. Young love is a familiar movie subject, but "Blue Is the Warmest Color" is something rare. ![]()
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