Hidden beneath the romance is a brutal class analysis. Emma is a bourgeois artist from an intellectual family; Adèle is a working-class teacher’s assistant whose parents are small shopkeepers. For a Vietnamese audience—acutely sensitive to class distinctions between nhà quê (countryside) and thành phố (city), between the educated elite and the labor class—this is heartbreaking.
For Vietnamese viewers, the film offers a unique cinematic experience. Thanks to dedicated "Vietsub," audiences can move beyond the hype and the controversy to discover the tender and heartbreaking story at its core. It is a film that stays with you, a blue-tinted memory of a love that burns as warm as it does cold. Blue Is The Warmest Color -2013- Vietsub