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Seydoux conveys the mind of an artist, and in all the ways the world measures it, Emma is the more extraordinary person. Emma (Seydoux) is an art student, from an artsy upper-middle-class family, while Adele is lower-middle-class - class will become an issue as the film wears on. When Adele first sees Emma, who is about five or six years older and has blue hair, it's love at first sight, and it registers on Exarchopoulos' face in the way it does in real life - like a kick in the stomach, like a forced recognition of one's own incompleteness. Without doubt, this is Western cinema's most mature and assured performance by a teenage actress since Sandrine Bonnaire's award-winning work in 'A Nos Amours' and 'Vagabond' 30 years ago. When the character grows into her mid-20s, Exarchopoulos (18 at the time of filming) evokes the aura and sensibility of a responsible adult woman. When the character is a teenager, Exarchopoulos thinks teenage thoughts. In close-up, we see an actress whose thoughts and moods are always shifting and revealing themselves, who is interesting in every frame. Though Seydoux, a major star in France, gets top billing, it's Exarchopoulos, previously unknown, who is the movie's focus.

In group scenes, director Abdellatif Kechiche just leaves the camera on Exarchopoulos. We meet Adele (Exarchopoulos) in high school, and unlike the usual bland teenage protagonist, she is already vivid - lively and confident, with a touch of insolence, an arresting low voice and an epicurean response to food.

From the beginning, it settles into a rhythm that makes sense of its length and gives the viewer a deep sense of place. The film is 179 minutes long and needs all 179 minutes. When it won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, Steven Spielberg, hardly a radical, was president of the jury. I doubt anyone walks out of 'Blue Is the Warmest Color' feeling they've seen a sex movie. But unlike in a film of pornography, the sex is simulated (as in no actual genital contact), and the overall point is not to arouse. On the contrary, if you don't find these scenes erotic, you've probably been dead for at least a week. The scenes, which are explicit and protracted, earned the film an NC-17 rating, and it would be disingenuous to claim they're not erotic. It arrives from France on a wave of controversy for its depictions of lesbian sex between the two young women, played by Lea Seydoux and Adele Exarchopoulos. You may have heard lots of things about this film, but the most important thing to know is that 'Blue Is the Warmest Color' is a masterpiece, the first of 2013, and the most emotionally moving film to come along in years.

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