Blue Is the Warmest Color is more than just a raunchy 10-minute sex scene between two heroines. The Palme d’Or-winning three-hour French coming-of-age film examines the genesis and final disintegration of a romantic and emotional connection between Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos) and Emma (Léa Seydoux).

However, not everyone was pleased with the director’s depiction of lesbian sexual encounters after the film’s debut, including the creator of the graphic novel on which the film was based, who branded them “ridiculous” and likened them to porn.

Filmmaker Yeni Sleidi played certain scenes from Blue for a group of LGBT women in a new video for Posture Magazine. While the panelists generally agree that Exarchopoulos and Seydoux are plainly straight women playing the part, their reactions to the contentious moment are consistently blasé.

“I thought it was hot, at the beginning,” said a reviewer named Taylor, “and then it got a little ridiculous when they kept switching sex positions every 10 seconds. And [it] started to feel kind of like an infomercial for a kitchen product, where they’re trying to, like, showcase all the things it can do. Like, ‘Oh, it can chop, it can slice, it can dice and it can mince and puree, and it can eat out your asshole.”

Another woman says, “I would like to say no, but it was a little bit like my mornings,” when asked if the dubious sex scenes were credible.

When asked if the film’s depiction of lesbian sex “is what it is really like,” another interviewee said, “Well, it is what you would hope it would be like. In lesbian sex there is a lot more crying.”

Another respondent said: “I have had a little bit of experience at this point. I would say no.”

“Yes, because lesbian sex can sometimes be good,” one of the panelists remarked.

Some thought the “ass-play” was a little too much, while others thought it was all a bit shaky.

Another observer, Zie, stated, “I think it was overall pretty boring. And I think it was also pretty obviously two straight women attempting to have sex on camera for pay, go figure. Yeah, haven’t seen that one before.”

One of the most common comments is how dated Léa Seydoux’s Emma looks to be with her blue hair.

Julie-Maroh, the author of the graphic novel Blue is the Warmest Color, described the film’s depiction of “so-called lesbian sex” as “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. Especially when, in the middle of a movie theatre, everyone was giggling.”

She added: “The heteronormative laughed because they don’t understand it and find the scene ridiculous. The gay and queer people laughed because it’s not convincing, and [they] found it ridiculous.”