As for the story, many will wonder what the fuss was about. Blue Is the Warmest Color videocam Trailer N/A IMDB: 7.7 Adle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. The two leads, not to mention Abdel Kechiche's direction, are excellent justifying the first-ever time the Palme d'Or was awarded jointly to both director and actors. The intensity is clear from the more intimate moments, but this very adult and measured film is also concerned with the minutiae of Adèle's life, notably in the infant school where she teaches. The small-town setting of Lille is important, since this allows Adèle to trace Emma to a local bar, and the pair begin a full-on but ill-fated affair. A young French student finds love and affection for the first time with a lover when she begins a passionate relationship with a. For anyone intrigued by the film's salacious reputation, the steamy moments barely make up 15 minutes of the three-hour running time, which dwells mostly on teenage heroine Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos), who makes a botched attempt at a relationship with a male schoolfriend before falling for the blue-haired and openly gay Emma (Léa Seydoux) after spotting her in the street.

This tastefully told coming-of-age tale, with its simulated but nevertheless convincingly explicit lesbian sex scenes, was the talk of the 2013 Cannes film festival, though it's perhaps too slight and too long to create much of a stir with multiplex audiences.

Blue is the warmest colour (2013)