Adèle (Léa Seydoux) and Emma (Adèle Exarchopoulos) lounge in a sun-dabbled park, flirting in feints at the close of a tentative first date. Few watching Blue is the Warmest Color (dir. Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013) might be surprised by what happens next: Emma, the blue-haired, older lover of the film, and Adèle, its hungry, coming-of-age lead, kiss. Now that the wall of apprehension around their relationship has broken, they leap swiftly from first base directly home, the camera cutting straight to Adèle’s bedroom. There, the lovers fall into an aerobic collage of kisses and tangled embraces. Most audiences were unprepared for the scene’s strikingly unconcerned carnality or its unheard-of length (at ten minutes, the sex scene is the film’s the longest).
-The Weeklings
