I am a guy, not a lesbian. And I loved this movie. The girl playing Adele has that incredible, indefinable hotness, this young girl coming of age look. She does a great job portraying so much without saying anything. She can act. She looks at the openly lesbian girl with blue hair and you can see her interest, her internal conflict as she realizes she is attracted to a girl. And their sex scenes are intense, very hot.
I don't speak French and had to read the subtitles, and I don't like having to read subtitles. But this movie held my attention throughout.

Adèle Exarchopoulos is so incredibly attractive in this movie. I love her without makeup. I have seen photos of her wearing a lot of makeup at Hollywood photo ops and stuff, and I don't find her as attractive that way. Maybe she reminds me of girls I knew in high school, maybe that high school look takes me back to those days, with hormones raging and emotional attachments to girls so intense. Maybe it is all that stuff, whatever. But I think she is so hot in this film.

Not only that, but her acting is simply great. If I didn't read the subtitles I would still know basically what was going on with her. She lived this role. She felt the emotions and wore them on her sleeve (an American expression meaning she fully expressed what she felt, what she felt was obvious to an observer).