zken Review of Blue Is the Warmest Colour

Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013)

walked out, the film gave me the most intense claustrophobia

[1/10 · 25 November 2013]

I almost never walk out of films. But this year is an exception. This movie had me thinking of watching an autopsy. It was cold, clinical, and so objectifying of the lead actress that I wanted to scream. Not only that but I could not think of sitting three hours to watch a plot which the director gave away in the first twenty minutes of the film. The problems with this film were so numerous, that I could never list them all. The subject matter seemed irrelevant right from the start. But one thing kept going through my head: romance without passion is like a day on the beach without the sun. Palm D'Or? A film with this lack of writing, thought, and drama is going to be cruel to an audience who has seen it all before.