The version of this film I managed to see was the three hour Canne version, I’m not sure when it is actually released how long it will be. I’m inclined to think the story could probably have been told in a couple of hours at most, but as it was so good I tended not to mind the epic viewing.

Blue Is the Warmest Color (drawing perhaps from I am Curious Yellow?) is the story of a high school girl who meets an older girl in university and the love affair that ensues.

The film is very graphic in its portrayal of lesbian-sex, but as the french are so good at doing, the film achieves a high degree of art in doing so. The scenes are often more tableau’s than just grunting representations of desire, drawing I guess on the fact that the older girl is an artist herself. The film also delivers us a beauty that is inconsistent with societal perceptions perhaps of Lesbians in general.

We only touch on the sordidness of the gay bar culture and are more so just presented with a gentle love story of people that care about each other. Gone is the in-your-face labias and harshly screamed “accept us” of the work of other directors like say Catherine Breillat, replaced with simple touching affection and emotion.