History Film / BlueIsTheWarmestColor

* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: [[spoiler:It's implied Emma is having an affair with Lise because she's lost interest in Adèle, though when Adèle has an affair of her own out of being lonely and desperate for intimacy, it's portrayed as being equally desperate and miserable.]]

* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:Adèle sleeps with a male colleague from the school that she works for. She did so out of crippling insecurity and paralyzing fear that Emma is becoming more distant and even turns her down for sex. By her reaction, it appears that this has never happened before]].

* BoyishShortHair: Emma wears her hair short whatever its color.

It's also among one of the few films to have earned an NC-17 rating.

* AuthorAvatar: By WordOfGod, aspiring actor Samir is a stand-in for Kechiche as he asks Adèle if the intimacy with women is different from men.

* BrickJoke: Emma explains Creator/JeanPaulSartre's existentialism by saying that existence precedes essence earlier in the film. In the third sex scene when Emma jokingly asks Adèle on how she finds her philosophy lessons, she laughs and said that it was enriching, deep, intense, and that [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments orgasm precedes essence.]]

* {{Fanservice}}: The lesbian sex scene. It was probably supposed to be seen as passionate and heartwarming, but given the fact it lasts six minutes long and [[IKEAErotica involves positions one could often find in pornography]], it definitely counts as this. And sadly, there are some viewers who find it [[BestKnownForTheFanservice more memorable than the actual movie]].

-->'''Emma:''' [[TearJerker I have infinite tenderness for you. I always will. All my life.]]

* {{Fanservice}}: The lesbian sex scene. It was probably supposed to be seen as passionate and heartwarming, but given the fact it lasts six minutes long and [[IKEAErotica involves positions one could often find in pornography]], it definitely counts as this. And sadly, there are some viewers who find it [[SignatureScene more memorable than the actual movie]].

* AdaptationalHeroism: In the comics, Clémentine's parents are homophobic bigots who eventually kick their daughter out of their home when they find out about her relationship with Emma. In the movie, while Adèle does hide her relationship with Emma to her parents, they are never hinted to be homophobic.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Almost none of the characters, major or minor, from the first part of the movie appear in the second. Adèle's coworker also drops off the face of the earth [[spoiler:after she has a brief affair with him,]] even before she's moved to a different class.
* ClosetKey: While Adèle doesn't identify as lesbian or bisexual nor is the film clear on where she places on the Kinsey Scale, Emma serves as this for her since she found out that she can possibly be attracted to women too.

* {{Contrast}}:

** The whole of Chapter 1 and all of Chapter 2.

* AdaptationalHeroism: In the comics, Clémentine's parents are homophobics bigots who eventually kick their daughter out of their home when they find out about her relationship with Emma. In the movie, while Adèle does hide her relationship with Emma to her parents, they are never hinted to be homophobic.

* DemotedToExtra: Adèle's parents and Emma's girlfriend Sabine have smaller roles in the movie.

* BlatantLies: [[spoiler:Adèle repeatedly denying to Emma that the guy who dropped her off is having an affair with her.]]

* CerebusCallback: Adèle and Emma spend a lot of time flirting and hanging out on a park bench in the first chapter. [[spoiler:In the second, she's sleeping on it alone, desperate to feel those happy memories again.]]

* ComingOfAgeStory: The film's more accurate title is Life of Adèle: Chapters 1 and 2 rather than Blue is the Warmest Colour. The film is more of a chronicle of how Adèle transitions from adolescence to adulthood rather than a lesbian love story even though their relationship is the centerpiece of Adele's life.

* GayBestFriend: Valentin is Adèle's best friend. He gives her advice about her heterosexual relationship with Thomas. Then, the trope is {{Subverted|Trope}}, because Adèle engages in a homosexual relationship. Valentin remains a very supportive and understanding friend when he defends and consoles Adèle from their homophobic classmates.
* {{Gayngst}}: Played straight with Adèle in the bullying scene and in the aftermath where she's crying silently and having difficulty concentrating in class. It is almost non-existent for the entirety of the movie since the marginalization of Adèle being closeted at work wasn't emphasized. Averted with Emma.

The film made history in the Cannes Film Festival by awarding its top prize, the ''Palme d'Or'' to the director and actresses of which the distinction is usually given to the filmmaker only. Also, the first [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation of comic book/graphic novel]] to receive the award for the first time in its history.

The film made history in the Cannes Film Festival by awarding its top prize, the ''Palme d'Or'' to the director and actresses of which the distinction is usually given to the filmmaker only. Also, the LiveActionAdaptation of comic book/graphic novel to receive the award for the first time in its history.

The film made history in the Cannes Film Festival by awarding its top prize, the ''Palme d'Or'' to the director and actresses of which the distinction is usually given to the filmmaker only.

''Blue Is the Warmest Color'' (''La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2'', 2013) is the adaptation by Abdellatif Kechiche of the comic [[ComicBook/BlueIsTheWarmestColor of the same name]], starring Adèle Exarchopoulos as Adèle and Creator/LeaSeydoux as Emma.

* NoBisexuals: There's criticism of the movie being painted as a "lesbian love story" when Adèle is shown to be capable of having romantic tension and sexual affairs with men. The fact that the film doesn't choose to explore Adèle's possible bisexuality doesn't help.

* UnkemptBeauty: Adèle, who's hair often gets in her eyes and is otherwise pretty messy.

* BoyishShortHair: Emma, who always wears her hair short, whatever its color.

* BoyishShortHair: Emma.

* {{Tomboy}}: Emma. She's too feminine to be described as butch and too masculine to be considered as a LipstickLesbian. Soft butch would be more accurate.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Emma and Adèle.

* GayBestFriend: Valentin is Adèle's best friend. He gives her advice about her heterosexual relationship with Thomas. Then, the trope is {{Subverted|Trope}}, because Adèle engages into a homosexual relationship. Valentin remains a very supportive and understanding friend when he defends and consoles Adèle from their homophobic classmates.

* GetOut: [[spoiler:Emma is furious when she learns about Adèle's betrayal that she deems the relationship damage irreversible. She orders Adèle to remove all of her stuff from her house and to get out of her life.]]

* HeldGaze: The pivotal moment in Adèle's life when she and Emma first laid eyes on each other.

* TheMissusAndTheEx: [[spoiler:Emma looks a little nervous when Lise (Emma's common-law wife by the end of the film) approaches ex Emma for friendly conversation during the exhibition.]]

* NoBisexuals: There's criticism of the movie being painted as a "lesbian love story" when Adèle is shown to be capable of having romantic tension and intimate encounters with men. The fact that the film doesn't choose to explore Adèle's possible bisexuality doesn't help.

* {{Pun}}: Emma humorously waives Adèle's comments that she just "wandered" into the lesbian bar by chance by saying that she's drinking [[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Goudale Goudale]], a beer brand that is the usual order by some of the regulars. Emma took a delightful spin into the word by referring to the beer as the preferred brand of ''goudou'', a French colloquial term for lesbian or butch. Even Emma was self-aware of her prosaic joke that she laughs at it.

* [[spoiler: SecondActBreakup:]] RuleOfDrama dictates [[spoiler: that Emma and Adèle had to break up in second act. Unlike usual romance movies, Adèle's attempt of TheGrovel in third act doesn't bring them back together.]]

* SimpleMindedWisdom: Adèle innocently asks Emma why they call it Fine Arts meaning are there ugly ones. Emma answers no but briefly considers her question and concedes that indeed some can be ugly but it could be subjective.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Adèle's counterpart in the source material becomes addicted to pills and ends up dying, but she survives the film without either occurring.
* StealthInsult: Emma gives a back-handed compliment to Adèle's father saying that his bolognese is "simple" but sumptuous.
* StepfordSmiler: The heartbroken and overwhelmed Adèle does her best to smile and look composed for her students during the folk dance before breaking down in tears as soon as they leave.

* WomanScorned: [[spoiler:Emma doesn't hold back her anger when she realizes that Adèle is cheating on her, striking her and forcing her out of the house.]]

* NoBisexuals: There's criticism of the movie being painted as a "lesbian love story" when Adèle has shown to be capable of having romantic tension and intimate encounters with men. The fact that the film doesn't choose to explore Adèle's possible bisexuality doesn't help.

* {{Seme}}: A lesbian version. Emma is the dominant partner in the relationship and is apparent that she owns the house they live in. She is also the top in their sexual encounters.

** Adèle studies Marivaux's ''La Vie de Marianne'' in class. Other literary works are mentioned: ''Literature/DangerousLiaisons'', Creator/JeanPaulSartre's ''Dirty Hands'' and ''Existentialism Is a Humanism''.

* GayBestFriend: Valentin is a very supportive and understanding friend when he defends and consoles Adèle from their homophobic classmates.

* BrickJoke: Emma explains Sartre's existentialism by saying that existence precedes essence earlier in the film. In the third sex scene when Emma jokingly asks Adèle on how she finds her philosophy lessons, she laughs and said that it was enriching, deep, intense, and that [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments orgasm precedes essence.]]

** Adèle studies Marivaux's ''La Vie de Marianne'' in class. Other literary works are mentioned: ''Literature/DangerousLiaisons'', Sartre's ''Dirty Hands'' and ''Existentialism Is a Humanism''.

* DisposableFiance: Thomas, Adèle's boyfriend, who she quickly dumps.