Conversely , Richard Brody , writing in '' The New Yorker '' about " Sex Scenes That Are Too Good " , stated : " The problem with Kechiche 's scenes is that they 're too good — too unusual , too challenging , too original — to be assimilated ... to the familiar moviegoing experience . Their duration alone is exceptional , as is their emphasis on the physical struggle , the passionate and uninhibited athleticism of sex , the profound marking of the characters ' souls by their sexual relationship . " After a test screening of selected scenes for a lesbian audience , one viewer commented : " I thought it was hot at the beginning , and then it got ridiculous when they kept switching sex positions every ten seconds . It started to feel like an infomercial for a kitchen product , where they try and showcase all the things it can do . ' It can chop , it can slice , it can dice , it can puree , it can eat out your asshole . ' " The film received LGBT and feminist critical comment for the dominance of the male gaze and lack of female gaze , with some reviewers calling it a " patriarchal gaze . " Julie Maroh , the author of the graphic novel upon which the film was based , said , " It appears to me this was what was missing on the set : lesbians . " Although Maroh praised Kechiche 's originality , describing his adaptation as " coherent , justified and fluid ... a masterstroke " , she also felt that he failed to capture the lesbian heart of her story , and disapproved of the sex scenes . In a blog post , she called the scenes , " a brutal and surgical display , exuberant and cold , of so-called lesbian sex , which turned into porn , and made me feel very ill at ease " , saying that in the movie theatre , " the heteronormative laughed because they do n't understand it and find the scene ridiculous . The gay and queer people laughed because it 's not convincing , and found it ridiculous . And among the only people we did n't hear giggling were the potential guys too busy feasting their eyes on an incarnation of their fantasies on screen " . She added that " as a feminist and lesbian spectator , I can not endorse the direction Kechiche took on these matters . But I 'm also looking forward to hearing what other women will think about it . This is simply my personal stance . " The film won the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival . The actresses were also given the Palme as a special prize . Kechiche dedicated the award to " the youth of France " and the Tunisian Revolution , where " they have the aspiration to be free , to express themselves and love in full freedom " . At Cannes it also won the FIPRESCI Prize . In addition , this was also the first film adapted from either a graphic novel or a comic to win the Palme d'Or . In December 2013 , it received the Louis Delluc Prize for best French film . The film was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film award at the 71st Golden Globe Awards and the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language . At the 39th César Awards , the film received eight nominations with Exarchopoulos winning the César Award for Most Promising Actress
39th César Awards
39th César Awards
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