They find themselves in such throes of lovemaking after a simple coming of age movie that (ironically considering the non political stance) could be co-opted into the poster child of the gay marriage movement. Seydoux and Exarchopooulos actresses are twisted into sweaty clinches of passion every which way, faces and moans of ecstasy more genuine than the most explicit porn film. Seydoux and Exarchopoulos are both gorgeous, and if you love French films because the actresses aren’t shy about their bodies, you’ll be in Gallic erotica heaven. If you’re there because the Internet has done away with peepshows in your neighbourhood, Kechiche does you a favour. But where that film had the misfortune to be made and released in such a conservative culture that immediately politicised the ‘gay’ in the love story, more liberal film markets in Europe are far less bothered by nudity and depictions of sexuality or homosexuality.īecause a 10 minute lesbian sex scene will likely get you an NC-17 rating in America (while a few beheadings and fatal shootings attract a PG-13 without much dispute), and the furore over ”Blue Is The Warmest Color”’s explicitness again shines a light on the wrong-headedness at the centre of most Western world artistic morality. It’s also the movie ”Brokeback Mountain” wanted to be, a love story rather than a gay love story.

Despite the behind the scenes agony of a five-month shoot (originally supposed to take two months), it’s an acting master class by the two leads. Her co-star Adèle Exarchopoulos described him as ‘a genius, but tortured’, saying ‘there was a kind of manipulation.īoth actresses went on to say they’d never work with Kechiche again, which just proves how special this beautiful, passionate and heartbreaking film is. Seydoux call the five-month shoot with writer/director Abdellatif Kechiche ‘horrible’. ”Blue Is The Warmest Color” also embodies that brings the old showbiz joke ‘I try to live vicariously through my art, now it’s your turn to try and live through it’.

Surely that’s got to be the best shorthand explanation for the difference between French and American movies. In the American one (”Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol”) she gets kicked out of a window of the world’s highest building. In the French movie, Léa Seydoux sleeps with a woman in several graphic and sumptuous sex scenes.

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