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Name: Blue Is the Warmest Color
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
Genre: drama, romance
Released: 2013
Duration: 3 h
Rating: 7.6

Blue Is the Warmest Color has an iRankMovies score of 81.3/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)

La Vie d'Adèle - Chapitres 1 et 2

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Release:2013

Runtime:3h 0m

Country:Belgium

Director:Abdellatif Kechiche

Language:French

Genre

DramaRomance

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Keywords

HomophobiaSelf DiscoveryEroticismComing Of Age loveLesbian RelationshipSexual AttractionBased On Graphic Novel

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Blue Is the Warmest Color rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.6/10· 171K votes

Rotten Tomatoes88%

Metacritic90%

TMDb7.071/10· 5K votes

With 88% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.6/10 on IMDb and 90/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Blue Is the Warmest Color

Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.

Cast of Blue Is the Warmest Color

Léa Seydoux
as Emma
Adèle Exarchopoulos
as Adèle
Salim Kéchiouche
as Samir
Aurélien Recoing
as Adèle's Father
Catherine Salée
as Adèle's Mother
Benjamin Siksou
as Antoine
Mona Walravens
as Lise
Alma Jodorowsky
as Béatrice
Jérémie Laheurte
as Thomas
Anne Loiret
as Emma's Mother
Benoît Pilot
as Emma's Stepfather
Sandor Funtek
as Valentin

Blue Is the Warmest Color facts

Original title: La Vie d'Adèle - Chapitres 1 et 2
Budget: $4.3M
Box office: $19.8M

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Audience opinions

What the audience liked

•Intimate character study captures genuine coming-of-age emotional authenticity and vulnerability
•Visual intimacy conveys relationship depth through mise-en-scene and performance subtlety
•Graphic novel adaptation respects source material while expanding narrative scope meaningfully

What the audience disliked

•Relationship conflicts lack sufficient dialogue to justify emotional stakes clearly enough
•Explicit content occasionally overshadows character development in certain sequences