Abdellatif Kechiche
Blue Is the Warmest Colour
7.7 
9.0Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire and to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adèle grows, seeks herself, loses herself, and ultimately finds herself through love and loss.
- Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
- Main Cast: Léa Seydoux, Salim Kechiouche, Aurélien Recoing, Adèle Exarchopoulos
- Cinematography: Sofian El Fani
- Screenplay: Abdellatif Kechiche, Ghalya Lacroix
Original Title: Blue Is the Warmest Color
Cinema Premiere: November 22, 2013
Foreign Reviews
15 foreign reviews of Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013)
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10 / 10
Translated from swedish: Abdellatif Kechiche has created a masterpiece about the love between two young women.
- Jeanette GenteleSwedish: svd.se »
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10 / 10
Translated from swedish: This bittersweet tale tells us something about life that has never been told before. Not on a movie screen and never with such profound sensitivity as here.
- Maria Domellöf-WikSwedish: gp.se »
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10 / 10
Translated from swedish: It's love and betrayal, jealousy and tenderness, insecurity and cockiness. Great acting and a pulsating presence during the spaghetti meals, in the tedious classroom, and in the intimate sex scenes.
- Björn JanssonSwedish: sverigesradio.se »
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10 / 10
Translated from swedish: The acting and chemistry between the two main characters is among the best I've ever seen.
- Gustav LarsedSwedish: filmtopp.se »
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9 / 10
Translated from swedish: It's an emotional roller coaster where both the highs and lows are portrayed in ways that not only feel authentic, but also – from some kind of moviegoing audience perspective – interesting and engaging.
- Jesper ÅkerlindSwedish: cine.se »
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8 / 10
Translated from swedish: The film is like an embryo that grows stronger, and the three-hour runtime, which you might think would work against it, doesn't feel like a drag at all.
- Victoria MachmudovSwedish: moviezine.se »
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8 / 10
Translated from swedish: A sensual film for cinephiles
- Jens PetersonSwedish: aftonbladet.se »
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8 / 10
Translated from swedish: Groundbreaking in its nakedness and shamelessness. Adèle and Emma's earth-shattering passion is portrayed through a cascade of poetic imagery in "Blue Is the Warmest Colour". Director Abdellatif Kechiche succeeds in conveying pure and uninhibited sensuality on the silver screen.
- Kerstin GezeliusSwedish: dn.se »
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8 / 10
Translated from swedish: Kechice captures the essence of love
- Johan MalmbergSwedish: Helsingborgs Dagblad »
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8 / 10
Translated from swedish: Bold acting in a raw love drama
- Annika GustafssonSwedish: sydsvenskan.se »
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8 / 10
Translated from swedish: Clever French love drama spiced up with gynecological acrobatics and phenomenal acting.
- Fredrik SahlinSwedish: svt.se »
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7.5 / 10
Translated from swedish: "Blue Is the Warmest Colour" is a beautiful film, often touching, but it's marred by its fuzziness; it rushes through Adèle's life when it could instead make better use of its hefty runtime. The emotions it gives us are sometimes profound; the whole, however, is all the more superficial.
- Fredrik FyhrSwedish: fredrikfyhr.se »
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6 / 10
Translated from swedish: Adèle Exarchopoulos' performance is fantastic. Her transparency. She vibrates with emotion. There's so much contained in her looks and movements throughout the three hours. That's what makes the film worth watching. Also the genuine chemistry with Léa Seydoux. It's the male storytelling that gets in the way. Pouting lips on screen. Adèle's body is explored unrestrained by the camera rather than her experiences. The men aren't filmed that way.
- Ronnit HassonSwedish: expressen.se »
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6 / 10
Translated from swedish: The universality is there - you really don't have to love people of the same gender to be fascinated and captivated by Emma and Adèle's love story. And that's the film's main point: humanity as both the object and subject of love. How difficult love relationships are, and how impossible it is to avoid them.
- Susanne Sigroth-LambeSwedish: unt.se »
Box Office
Blue Is the Warmest Colour has earned a total of 19 465 835 dollars from cinemas across the world (the global box office).
1. Nöjesguiden
Translated from swedish: There are also major themes you can extract from this film: power, sexuality, freedom. But what stays with me like a magical, imagined past is the belief in love as something that forces you to lay down your weapons. You're going to make mistakes that aren't useful or educational in hindsight at all. You don't get to choose.
- Hanna Johansson
Swedish: ng.se »