Hot Girl-on-Girl Auteurism: The GQ Review of France's Troubling, Transfixing Blue is the Warmest Color

The story of a French high-school girl who embarks on a torrid affair with a woman painter, Blue Is The Warmest Color is a hypnotically well-made and affecting movie with a meretricious streak a mile wide. What’s tricky is that the meretriciousness may be unavoidable—that is, it’s built into the …