Blue Is The Warmest Color

Acclaimed French filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche’s ('The secret of the grain', 'Games of love and chance') latest, based on Julie Maroh’s graphic novel, was the sensation of this year’s Cannes Film Festival even before it was awarded the Palme d’Or. The cast includes Léa Seydoux (Midnight in Paris), Adèle Exarchopoulos, Aurélien Recoing, Catherine Salée.

Adèle Exarchopoulos is a young woman whose longings and ecstasies and losses are charted across a span of several years. Léa Seydoux is the older woman who excites her desire and becomes the love of her life.

Kechiche’s movie is, like the films of John Cassavetes, an epic of emotional transformation that pulses with gestures, embraces, furtive exchanges, and arias of joy and devastation. It is a profoundly moving hymn to both love and life.

 The movie is rated N-17 and runs for 3 hours.