100
Time Out London by Dave Calhoun
From this simple, not especially unique love story, Kechiche has fashioned an intimate epic.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
90
New York Magazine (Vulture) by David Edelstein
The movie goes on for three hours without an emotional letup — it’s finally overwhelming.
75
Abdellatif Kechiche reveals through his sense of composition, and collaboration with his remarkable actresses, a sensitivity to emotional nuance that's striking.
91
Kechiche excels at capturing his protagonist's emergence in the world.
100
Blue is the Warmest Color is a masterpiece of human warmth, empathy and generosity, because in a mere three hours, it gives you a whole new life to have lived.
96
A damn near perfect film.
100
The Hollywood Reporter by Jordan Mintzer
Less concerned with classic storytelling than with creating virtual performance pieces on screen, the film features dozens of extended sequences of Adele and Emma both in and out of bed—scenes that are virtuously acted and directed, even if they run on for longer than most filmmakers would allow.
91
Entertainment Weekly by Leah Greenblatt
Blue's raw portrayal of infatuation and heartbreak is both devastating and sublime. It's unforgettable.
80
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
It's a long movie, and by the end you may well feel every bit as wrung out as the characters. But it is genuinely passionate film-making.
100
The Telegraph by Robbie Collin
It is an extraordinary, prolonged popping-candy explosion of pleasure, sadness, anger, lust and hope.
For better or for worse, this film has an established place in the queer film canon. For many, it was the first exposure to a lesbian relationship portrayed on screen. But, moving forward, it is important that we as viewers grasp the distinction between representation and fetishization. The treatment the lead actresses endured on set, especially during sex scenes is entirely unacceptable and we must express that in what kind of art we choose to consume. Anyone curious about this should read about the staging of sex scenes in Park Chan-Wook's, The Handmaiden, and the care and respect the actresses were given.