Awards are all well and good, and if they get more people to see particular films then good on them, but to me all the noise surrounding the film couldn’t help but take away something from a movie that lends itself to be discovered naturally. Surprisingly though it is the film’s Palme d’Or win from a jury led by director Steven Spielberg at this year’s Cannes Film Festival that got most people to notice, the first such prize from the fest to include both the director and the film’s stars. It could be the film’s extremely explicit lesbian sex scenes between the two leads-Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopolous-and it could be the recent controversial public spat between Seydoux and Kechiche about the director’s alleged megalomaniacal style on set, or it could be the film’s abnormal-for-American-audiences runtime clocking in at just a minute under three hours. There are a number of things that set this film’s overwhelming buzz apart from the rest for reasons within the movie and without. Hype – I’ve talked about this slippery slope before, but for Abdellatif Kechiche’s new film Blue is the Warmest Color it is both a gift and a curse.
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