Blue is the Warmest Colour (2013)

That train keeps chugging and by pure accidental bliss, we have another film up here with some stark similarities!

We follow up STRANGER BY THE LAKE with BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR: a film that not only also came out in 2013, competed in the Cannes Film Festival the same year, but went on to win the Palme D'or. Look at us, being accidentally brilliant! Would I go on to say this film is "controversial"? Probably. We have some issues with it. As you'll gather, we don't talk about the film much but rather the way the film was made. There's some questionable behavior happening here and we're not a podcast to let that slide. The two leads however, Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos are exceptional. Honestly, they knock this film out of the park with the rather mediocre material they are given. It's a disappointing shame as this was adapted from the equally exceptional graphic novel by Jul Maroh.

This is mostly Ryan's opinion here, Laura thinks the film is pretty good despite our universal disapproval of the off-camera shenanigans. It's just the Director who needs to take a little look in the mirror honestly if any of these allegations are true. Let's hope not dude, because that's kinda messed up!

BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR (2013) is streaming in the US free on Kanopy (with a US library card), as well as on MUBI if you have the subscription, and in the UK you can rent it on Apple TV + and ITV x!