Blue is the Warmest Color: May 2013

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CANNES, France (AP) — The tender, sensual lesbian romance \"Blue is the Warmest Color: The Life of Adele" won the hearts of the 66th Cannes Film Festival, taking its top honor, the Palme d'Or.

The jury, headed by Steven Spielberg, took the unusual move of awarding the Palme not just to Tunisian-born director Abdellatif Kechiche, but additionally to the film's two stars: Adele Exarchopoulos and Lea Seydoux. All three clutched one another as they simply accepted the award, one of cinema's greatest honors.

"The film had a beautiful French youth that I discovered through the long time filming the movie," said Kechiche at the festival closing ceremony Sunday. "It taught me a lot about the spirit of freedom."

Exarchopoulos stars in the French film as a 15-year-old girl whose life is changed when she falls deeply in love with some old woman, played by Seydoux. The three-hour film caught headlines for its lengthy, graphic sex scenes, but bewitched festival goers because of its heartbreaking coming of age story.

Blue is the Warmest Color

Drama about a lesbian affair bold won the Cannes Film Festival

The movie "Blue Is the Warmest Color" by Tunisian director Abdlatif elderly, which describes a novel between the two girls, won the Golden Palm at Cannes. Coen brothers had to settle for the Grand Prix award. Bruce Dern and Bernice Zhu won awards actor and actress

Tunisian director Abdolatif elderly may not be recognized as Roman Polanski, Jim Jarmusch, the Coen brothers, Alexander Payne and other illustrious filmmakers who participated in the competition this year the Cannes Film Festival, but he overcame them tonight (Sunday) and won the Golden Palm. Awards ceremony was held in Katy on the French Riviera, the prestigious festival was signed after a week and a half with an elderly winning film "Blue Is the Warmest Color" ("Blue is the hottest color") first prize.