The sex scenes ruined the realism of the movie.

I thought the sex scenes were unnecessarily graphic and a little exploitative. I have no problems generally with sex scenes that are graphic and I think they often enhance a movie but I was watching this film and wondering to myself just how long the sex was gonna go on for. Then, when they did the second scene, it just felt to me like the director was having them act out a personal fantasy. There was no need for it. The first few minutes of the first sex scene was enough to demonstrate the intensity of their feelings for each other.

Also, seeing such a young character in such an intimate way felt a bit icky. I have no idea how old the actress was but the character was a very young woman. She did seem too young to be that confident with her first lesbian encounter...and way too young to be watched while doing it.

Strange movie.

Edited to add - I just found an interview with the two lead actors who both said the director was abusive and demanding and forced them to do things they did not want to do. It confirms my suspicions about the actors being exploited. I'll certainly never watch it again.

Not everyone has sex like a prude Christian.

I found them a bit porn like and therefore detracted from the love story underneath. The film was brilliant though, so only a minor detail. However i can't help thinking the nudity was part of its success

before anyone calls me a prude and thinks that the problem lies in that

I felt some parts of the main sex scene were too setup, so to speak. So, it feels slightly unnatural, like as if the characters approach was too methodical rather than fluid. I need to see this movie again, though.

I just felt that the encounters were not realistic for someone who was supposedly losing her virginity/trying to discover her sexuality. She seemed too experienced. This is what I meant by the porn-like feel of the scenes.

Just saw it last night. I can't say that the sex scens ruined it but there was more than necessary. I realize that the scenes might be relevant to qualify the intensity of the two lovers. But by the third scene, my feeling, is that it's there for it's own end. Yeah, beautiful, non-porn looking women passionately making love frendiedly. Okay let's move this along.

I did find myself wondering how long it was going to take to get to a conclusion, at least for this chapter. There were also too many scenes of Adele just staring off in deep contemplation or confusion or doubt.

Overall I enjoyed the movie and the story. I think that the story could have been just as effective, maybe more, with some more editing for time.

Overall, I didn't like the movie. I found the dialogues awkward, they just sounded like bad impro (I read after watching the movie that there was a lot of impro indeed), the dullness of the characters around Adèle and Emma, and the lengthy useless scenes (like Adèle's suprisingly super narrow-minded friends calling her "p*ssy licker" over and over and over repeating the same stuff for 5 minutes; just to name one lengthy scene).

I also don't have any problems with sex scenes, nudity and all that. I actually really liked '9 songs' a lot, which showed a lot too, but seemed less staged, without all the fake acrobatics of staged sex...

But yeah, the sex scenes in 'Blue...' were really, really painful to watch. They are so crude, they so want to show the integrality of the bodies, the licking from the best angle possible, for soooo long... In the end, it just looks like performances. Porn performances. Why show so much, for soooo long, why leave absolutely nothing to imagination...

Ironically, I think that without those 'daring' scenes, the film would never have gotten such praises. And the Palme d'Or. Those sex scenes are indeed very porno-like, but it got credit because the movie was supposedly a celebration of lesbian love & sexuality, etc. Yep. Still, shaved p*ssies (major porno criteria): check!! Scenes straight from a heterosexual man: check! Pleeeeease....

To be honest, when watching those scenes, it's so painfully obvious that it was a (straight) man behind the camera that it disgusts me. While wrapped in a supposedly daring, honest approach, it is just sexism in disguise. It'so, so voyeuristic... It didn't have to be so crude, it didn't have to be so violent for the actresses, it could have been tender and sensual instead of being X-rated like...