Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)

Most people think so. 81% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 89%.

Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself. Wikipedia ↗

Blue Is the Warmest Color is a 2013 French coming-of-age romantic drama directed by Abdellatif Kechiche, based on Julie Maroh's graphic novel. Lea Seydoux and Adele Exarchopoulos star as Emma, a blue-haired art student, and Adele, a high school student who falls deeply in love with her, in a film that chronicles their passionate relationship from first glance through several years of intimacy, artistic growth, class difference, and eventual heartbreak. Blue Is the Warmest Color won the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival — awarded to both the director and the two lead actresses, an unprecedented decision — and the film's explicit, extended love scenes sparked global debate about the representation of female sexuality, the male gaze in cinema, and the boundaries of artistic expression.

Adele Exarchopoulos and Lea Seydoux both later described the filming conditions as emotionally and physically exhausting. The three-hour runtime allowed the relationship to develop with novelistic depth.