The story itself is captivating but also heartbreaking and emotional. It’s one that everyone can relate with, despite sexual preference.

| Aug 13, 2024

Blue is the Warmest Colour was the first time many queer women were able to see two women in a romantic relationship in popular media. It’s a shame those characters weren’t treated with respect.

| Jul 25, 2023

Abdellatif Kechiche takes all the time in the world to narrate the emergence and possible sentimental catastrophe of this young couple... [Full review in Spanish]

| Feb 7, 2023

Blue‘s a well-acted plot outline lacking sexual or psychological specificity, exactly the details needed to make the well-trod beats of a relationship drama work.

| Jan 25, 2023

Make sure you have tissues with you (lots of them!) because the performance of these young girls is nothing short of revelatory.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 24, 2022

Their selfless, all-in commitment defines and intensifies every exchange.

| Mar 5, 2022

An insular and intimate epic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 7, 2022

Adèle Exarchopoulos, with her big open awkward face - the camera just lives right there on top of that face for ages and ages; sobbing and huffing and puffing, flirting and snarling and smacking her lips

| Jul 2, 2021

Blue is the Warmest Colour is a teenager's deeply personal odyssey of self-discovery as she traverses the boundary of girlhood to enter womanhood.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 25, 2021

I am sad to report that I was underwhelmed and uncomfortable, and all too familiar with the tropes at play, none of them creatively handled.

| Jun 14, 2021

No filmmaker I can think of used sex this way though in portraying first love. It's something everyone goes through and it hits home hard. Therefore Adèle's joy and heartbreak has much more resonance.

| Feb 24, 2021

Blue Is the Warmest Color may not be a sweeping, Technicolor epic but it comprises the entire length, breadth and depth of a single relationship from love to sex to food to heartbreak and back to love. What could be more epic than that?

| Feb 16, 2021

One of the most frank depictions of sexual awakening to ever hit mainstream screens.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 1, 2021

Exarchopoulos and Seydoux are constantly undercut by Kechiche's direction, which often seems more about his directorial desires than the motivations of the story's protagonists.

| Jan 20, 2021

...as emotionally touching as it is sexy...

| Nov 16, 2020

Both Cannes' award-winning female leads deliver naturalistic performances that transcend their much-ballyhooed extended sex scenes.

| Jun 19, 2020

The result is of an intensity, a passion, and a force that is ultimately capable of drawing down any objection that comes its way. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 15, 2020

Kechiche creates a throbbing coming-of-age drama.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 21, 2019

If you give Kechiche your time, he hardly tries your patience, once again creating a beautiful, engrossing film that manages to capture human emotion like few others films ever have.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 29, 2019

Kechiche totally dirts the whole thing through the objectifying male gaze he shoots through and in the bloated, completely indulgent three hour running time. Had he used the time to further unpack these complex characters, maybe it could be justified.

| Original Score: C | Aug 27, 2019