Not only did “Blue Is the Warmest Color” win the Palme d’Or, but the jury stipulated that the top prize belonged to both Kechiche and his two actresses as well. While the media focused on a graphic six-and-a-half minute sex scene between the women - at one point misreporting it at 20 minutes long - the high profile jury, headed by Steven Spielberg, saw a much bigger picture. The French director of the acclaimed dramas “Black Venus” and “The Secret of the Grain,” Kechiche had completed what was possibly his most ambitious work to date, a two-and-a-half hour coming-of-age drama about a pair of young female lovers (19-year-old newcomer Adele Exarchoupolos and rising star Lea Seydoux) who fall in and out of an intense romance as they grapple with big ideas. In May, Abdellatif Kechiche and the cast of “Blue is the Warmest Color” looked like they were on top of the world.
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