The Palme d'Or winner at Cannes this year, Blue Is the Warmest Color, is just fine with the NC-17 it received in America: its 10-minute lesbian sex scene has been the most discussed portion of the ...

An alert, inquisitive 17-year-old, Adèle (Exarchopoulos) is hungering for fireworks, fatedness, the coup de foudre of the great literature she adores. She stumbles into just that, in a glancing ...

The tender lesbian romance “Blue is the Warmest Color: The Life of Adele” won the hearts of the 66th Cannes Film Festival, taking its top honor, the Palme d’Or. The jury, headed by Steven Spielberg, ...

There were no jewel heists on the last day of the Cannes film festival, but there was gold being given out Sunday in the form of the festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or. The jury decided the award ...

The moral of “Blue Is the Warmest Color” is simple: Sex without love is nothing; life without love is even less. French filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche’s story of sexual awakening and real love ...

Sometimes when I hear the hateful folks at the Westboro Baptist Church are in a lather over some film, I just have to see it. Films like the controversial hit Blue Is the Warmest Color. Even if it is ...

Art has a way of harrowingly reminding us of the ugliest times in our lives and the ugliest parts of ourselves. And still, every time I hear a mention of the French movie “Blue Is the Warmest Color,” ...

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The Reel Story: This French coming-of-age/sexual awakening film is a rarity. It's raw, natural and ringing so true that it feels like we are intimately watching the lives of its two young women.

A French teen (Adèle Exarchopoulos) forms a deep emotional and sexual connection with an older art student (Léa Seydoux) she met in a lesbian bar.