Blue Is the Warmest Color meltdown: Is homophobia a factor?

Blue Is the Warmest Color meltdown: Is homophobia a factor?

There was an aura of anomaly attached to the French film Blue Is the Warmest Color (La vie d’Adèle) from the moment it won this year’s Palme d’Or, the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival. As the New York Times’ Manohla Dargis reported, the competition jury decided to “formally recognize not only the movie’s director, Abdellatif Kechiche, but also its two young actresses, Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux,” an “unusual, perhaps unprecedented step,” which “acknowledged the contributions of both women, who appear naked in several sex scenes, but … also took some auteur sheen away from Mr. Kechiche.”