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Blue Is the Warmest Colour
2013
The most epic same-sex love story ever told on film? Probably. Even accusations of abusive on-set behavior from director Abdellatif Kechiche didn’t stop critics pouring over this 179-minute-long coming-of-age drama. It puts under the magnifying glass the passionate love affair between schoolgirl Adele and art student Emma.
The film’s centerpiece – a graphic, seven-minute sex scene, which took ten days to film – was hotly debated by feminists and lesbian commentators, with many dismissing it as absurd. This aside, the emotional trajectory of the central relationship is hyperreal, and immediately recognizable to anybody who’s been in heady, all-consuming young love.
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