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"A film at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival is said to have &amp;quot;the most explosively graphic lesbian sex in recent memory&amp;quot;. Blue Is the Warmest Colour received its premiere today (May 23), and has been described by critics as &amp;quot;show-stopping&amp;quot;.  The erotic film follows a love affair between a Frenchwoman and a teenage girl, and is vying for the Palme d&amp;#039;Or prize. Tunisian-born French director Abdellatif Kechiche told reporters that he did not intend to include a particular statement in his film. &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#039;t want to make a militant film with a message to deliver about a specific topic, in this case homosexuality. It can of course be seen from that angle. It doesn&amp;#039;t bother me,&amp;quot; he said. He explained in production notes that the film was &amp;quot;a love story with all the beauty that that involves&amp;quot;, adding: &amp;quot;I had more of a feeling that I was telling the story of a couple&amp;quot;.  On the graphic sex scenes, he said: &amp;quot;We shot the scenes as if they were paintings. We spent a lot of time lighting them so that they are really beautiful.&amp;quot; Variety described it as &amp;quot;a searingly intimate character study marked by the most explosively graphic lesbian sex scenes in recent memory&amp;quot;. The Hollywood Reporter stated that it will &amp;quot;raise eyebrows with its show-stopping scenes of non-simulated female copulation&amp;quot;. Cannes has also seen the premieres of homoerotic film Stranger at the Lake and Steven Soderbergh&amp;#039;s Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra, which also includes graphic gay sex scenes. In pictures - Cannes 2013:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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