Rumors, rumbles, and other palpitations have beset “Blue Is the Warmest Color” since it showed at the Cannes Film Festival, in May. The jury, chaired by Steven Spielberg, awarded the Palme d'Or to the director, Abdellatif Kechiche, and his two leading
Abdellatif Kechiche's “Blue Is the Warmest Color,” which won the Palme d'Or in Cannes earlier this year, has received a lot of attention — some salacious, some censorious — for its extended and explicit lesbian sex scenes. The film, about a French
PARIS – The battle of words over Blue Is the Warmest Color is heating up, with director Abdellatif Kechiche now fanning the flames of controversy in an open letter published on the website Rue89 on Wednesday.
By the time Blue Is the Warmest Color won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival last May, the three-hour French lesbian coming-of-age drama, with its deliriously explicit and extended sex scenes, was mired in
Abdellatif Kechiche narrates a scene from him film, with Adèle Exarchopoulos and Alma Jodorowsky.
