The top prize winner at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, Abdellatif Kechiche’s “Blue Is the Warmest Color” is a nearly three-hour, NC-17-rated movie about the pleasures of sex — and the pleasures of ...

If you’ve ever wondered what a lesbian porn epic would look like, Blue is the Warmest Color is pretty damn close. But truly, it’s not pornographic: The film does include sex — lots of it — to ...

Because that’s the way the American media works, you probably know Blue Is the Warmest Color as “that movie with the seven-minute (or “10-minute” or “20-minute,” depending on how hyperbolic the report ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

"Blue Is the Warmest Color" arrives in theaters with an enormous amount of fanfare. To recap: It won the top prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Director Abdellatif Kechiche and the film's ...

French-Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche poses on May 26, 2013 with his Palme d'Or award flanked by French actresses Lea Seydoux (R) and Adele Exarchopoulos during a photocall at the 66th Cannes ...

The film centres around Adèle Exarchopoulos's Adele, a young woman beginning to discover her sexuality. She finds herself falling for the alluring Emma (Léa Seydoux). Due to Academy rules, the film ...

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 ...