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Following a run a festival appearances, Cannes Film Festival Palme D’Or winner “Blue is the Warmest Color” is opening in North American theaters. The French drama’s lengthy lesbian sex scenes and the ...

Controversy swirled around Blue is the Warmest Color almost as soon as the film’s existence came to light. This almost three-hour, NC-17-rated love story about two females - one of whom is 15 years ...

Defending a movie against charges it’s pornographic is a little like answering the age-old poser “When did you stop beating your wife?” Once the discussion is phrased in those terms, it’s already half ...

IFC Films‘ “Blue is the Warmest Color” opened to about $101,000 domestically this weekend in the thick of multiple controversies surrounding the film’s release. Unspooling on four screens in New York ...

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 ...

When we first meet the character of Agathe, a schoolteacher living in Paris in the drama “Passages,” she’s in a club, tired of pretending to be interested in the needy guy who’s nominally her ...

I am a man, and this is an article concerning female sexuality, at least in part. I feel that should be noted immediately, lest anyone take it as an unnoticed irony rather than a relevant starting ...

Another year brings another NC-17 controversy at the movies. This time it’s for “Passages,” the acclaimed romance drama from Ira Sachs that earned strong reviews out of the Sundance Film Festival ...

Ten years after her film Blue Is the Warmest Color won the prestigious Palme d’Or at Cannes, Adèle Exarchopoulos once again finds herself the star of an international film festival hit. In director ...