Simply Perfect

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

I don't mind that the love story is about queer couple at all because the love story is just so real! It really touched me. Tbh, I felt it even more than I would in usual movies we see today. This movie tells you what love really is and what it should be. And I didn't really mind that it lasts for 3 hrs..It is absolutely worth seeing!! I highly recommend this movie to EVERYONE!

I'd like to say that the movie was okay in general,but there were some things that annoyed me so much. First,i don't get it why there were so many close ups of everyone's faces,example they eat and they chew with their mouth open and all the food is shown which was disgusting. Another thing is that the sex scene is overrated,I honestly don't think that it makes the movie better or anything,unlike the other comments and reviews that I read. There were so many holes in this movie that i don't know where to start.We don't know anything about how they ended up living together or whether at some point Adele's parents find out about her being a lesbian.I read that you can learn from this movie a lot about relationships,whether you are straight or homo or bi,which is totally not true.Nothing is really happening between them other the fact that Emma becomes very busy and avoids Adele,who then cheats on Emma and they break up..typical stuff that has been seen in a lot of movies.It lasts 3 hours and nothing happens particularly that makes the movie interesting.

There is much commonality in most love stories on film, with interest coming mainly from how they are told. I found the telling of this tale of two young women who fall in love to be engaging from several perspectives. First of all I was taken with Adèle Exarchopoulos, the actress who plays Adèle, the protagonist. If you do not respond to her physically or emotionally, then your experience of this movie is likely to be quite different from mine. Léa Seydoux, who plays Emma, Adèle's love interest, was less appealing to me, but was well cast nonetheless.Adèle's first encounter with Emma was an exchange of casual glances as they walked past each other. I liked that scene, since it was subtly done yet you knew from that first eye contact that these two were destined to be involved in some way. It may not have been love at first sight, but that usually just means sexual attraction at first sight and Adèle and Emma had that.Director Kechiche had to have been fascinated with Exarchopoulos, given the many ways he filmed her to accentuate her appeal, it's like he couldn't get enough of her. He used her infectious smile to great advantage. A good part of the movie is taken up with closeups of Exarchopoulos and Seydoux. I liked the way that Adèle did not anguish too much over her sexual identity, a theme that is prominent in a lot of gay themed movies. After some initial experimentation involving men and an attempted contact with a woman, once Emma was on board Adèle knew that she wanted Emma and she never seemed to doubt herself in spite of getting flack from her mates.Early in their relationship Adèle and Emma are seen engaging in explicitly sexual acts. These scenes have created a lot of buzz, but I think they are essential to the movie, since sexual attraction is what has brought these two women together and, as we get to know them, it is seen that the sexual attraction is going to have to be strong enough to bridge some cultural gaps. Emma comes from a family with liberal parents, a family that delights in eating oysters and drinking fine wine, while Adèle's family is more into table wine and spaghetti with Bolognese sauce. Emma associates with artists, philosophers, actors, and other elites. Emma is so much more experienced and sophisticated than Adèle that I did wonder how this relationship was going to work out, absent the sex. But it was Emma who broke it off, or was she just looking for an excuse to do so? To Adèle's credit she recognized the cultural differences but, in spite of some small intimidation, she felt no need to pretend artistic inclinations. She likes children and, as the movie develops, we see that Adèle does have a natural talent in the classroom in front of small children. There is a scene where Adèle is involved in a group interaction with her class that has the kids so rapt that it reminded me of that fantastic scene in "The 400 Blows" that has the kids attending a Paris puppet show.The sex scenes are filmed with an appreciation of sculpture. In some scenes I could not quite figure how the women got themselves into the positions they were in. I had the feeling that maybe it was good that these women were lesbian, since finding a man who could satisfy them would be a challenge. It is not a stretch to see how this movie could be played as a love story between heterosexuals, but trying to see how it would work with gay men is more difficult to imagine. At the least male sex scenes would probably not make it past the censors. Apparently neither Exarchopoulos nor Seydoux is a lesbian, so the fact they could get themselves to do the sex scenes amazes me.This kept my attention for the full three hours.

Surely if this film was trying to be ground breaking, having 2 not so beautiful leads would have been revolutionary.All one thinks is ,that it's the director's fetishes on show.I admit my jaw hit the proverbial when they moved off the spaghetti and got chomping on each other.You've got to love the French though ,straight in there no messing with the sex scenes,the like of which,i would guess,are seen only in porn.So why is this art and not a porno.? because of course this is adapted from a book and they are suffering with their identities ,growing up,being political,smoking their petites derrieres off...yeh,right!We've come a very long way from the Hayes code.