And Julie Maroh, the author of the graphic novel upon which the film is based, penned a lengthy screed against the sex scene after it screened in Cannes, calling it “a brutal and surgical display, exuberant and cold, of so-called lesbian sex, which turned into porn, and made me feel very ill at ease.” They were all, from what I could gather, middle-aged women who bid the film adieu at around the five-minute mark.
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There were several walkouts at both screenings of the movie I attended-the first in late August at the Telluride Film Festival, and the second at the New York Film Festival earlier this month.
All the brewing tension comes to a head in their first love scene: a seven-minute paroxysm of sexual desire replete with clawing, slapping, scratching, moaning, and howling.
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After a series of flirtatious encounters in the park, the two fall madly, passionately in love. One day, she crosses paths with Emma (Léa Seydoux), an art student at a nearby college with a flashy blue ’do, and becomes infatuated with her. Some of the criticisms aimed at the scene, however, are legitimate.īlue is the Warmest Color tells the tale of Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos), a 15-year-old high school student in Paris whose initial forays into the realm of sexual experimentation leave much to be desired. And yes, much of the feigned shock-or genuine, as it were-over the sequence can be credited to a mélange of tabloid sensationalism, the last vestiges of American Puritanism, and heteronormativity. Now, the scene may feel like it’s 10 minutes long, but it’s really a shade over seven.
That turned into spontaneous applause (and relieved laughter), when the women climaxed and finished a minute later.” The reporter from Variety, meanwhile, wrote that it had “the most explosively graphic lesbian sex scenes in recent memory.” Audience walkouts began around minute nine. One of the first dispatches on the film from Cannes, courtesy of New York magazine, claimed, “I clocked the first sex scene between Adèle and Emma - replete with fingering, licking, and, as a friend called it, ‘impressive scissoring’ - at an approximate ten minutes. From the moment the movie premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May, the coverage has been fast and furious.