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BLUE CRUSH Exarchopoulos plays a schoolgirl who finds herself drawn to an older art student in this Cannes winner. Forget for a second about the graphic sex scenes and the attendant controversies. I ...

Following a run a festival appearances, Cannes Film Festival Palme D’Or winner “Blue is the Warmest Color” is opening in North American theaters. The French drama’s lengthy lesbian sex scenes and the ...

Blue is the Warmest Color (2013) is a French coming-of-age drama that delves into the passionate and complex love story between two young women, Adèle and Emma. Adèle, a young student, navigates her ...

Defending a movie against charges it’s pornographic is a little like answering the age-old poser “When did you stop beating your wife?” Once the discussion is phrased in those terms, it’s already half ...

The moral of “Blue Is the Warmest Color” is simple: Sex without love is nothing; life without love is even less. French filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche’s story of sexual awakening and real love ...

When we first meet the character of Agathe, a schoolteacher living in Paris in the drama “Passages,” she’s in a club, tired of pretending to be interested in the needy guy who’s nominally her ...

Another year brings another NC-17 controversy at the movies. This time it’s for “Passages,” the acclaimed romance drama from Ira Sachs that earned strong reviews out of the Sundance Film Festival ...

Ten years after her film Blue Is the Warmest Color won the prestigious Palme d’Or at Cannes, Adèle Exarchopoulos once again finds herself the star of an international film festival hit. In director ...

Controversy swirled around Blue is the Warmest Color almost as soon as the film’s existence came to light. This almost three-hour, NC-17-rated love story about two females - one of whom is 15 years ...