Blue Is the Warmest Color (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)

Heads-Up: Special Edition Coming Later
I just want to give everyone a heads-up that Criterion will be releasing a Special Edition for this film later next year. The film is fantastic, and I am giving it 5 stars, but the review is simply a heads-up in case you didn't know there was a better edition coming out later.

Criterion specifically says this on the product page for the movie:

"A full special edition treatment of this film will follow at a later date."

I hope this helps someone. I know I'd be upset if I spend $20 on this basic edition, and then found out later that there's another coming out with a lot more extras included.

4.5 stars... Epic relationship drama will move you (and may shock you too)
"Blue Is the Warmest Color" (2013 release from France; 179 min.; original title "La Vie d'Adele - Chapitre 1 et 2") brings the story of Adele, a HS junior who is struggling to find her identity. As the movie opens, we see Adele, who lives in Lille, taking the bus to school, getting through the day at school, clearly enjoying her French Lit class, where they are discussing Marivaux's "The Life of Marianne", having dinner with her mom and dad (it appears Adele is an only child), and turning in for bed, so that she can do it all over again the next day. Adele has a few dates with Thomas, a senior. At one point Adele briefly crosses paths with a girl who has blue streaks in her hair, and for Adele it is "le coup de foudre" (love at first sight). Adele even dreams about her but it isn't till much later that she runs into the girl at a gay bar. The girl's name is Emma, and even though Emma has been with another girl for 2 years, it isn't long before Adele and Emma fall for each other. At...

A breathtaking and monumentally powerful film with two of the best performances of recent years.
A good romance in American cinema is surprisingly difficult to find because most films of a romantic nature are either romantic comedies or romantic melodramas. They're a dime a dozen. But every once in a great while, you get a film that not only casts off the rom-com or melodrama usually associated with a romance story, but actually draws you in to the relationship in such a mesmerizing way with smart and absorbing storytelling and unbelievably brilliant performances is one of the rarest things imaginable. Director Abdellatif Kechiche's BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR is that film.

Based on the wonderful award-winning graphic novel by Julie Maroh, BLUE is the story of Adele (Adele Excharpoulos), who begins the film as a naturally beautiful 15-year-old high school student who is just trying to do her best to stay uneaten in the feeding frenzy of adolescence. She keeps with her friends; she dates a cute boy; she pleases her working-class parents; she does well in school. But all...

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