White Rose of York actual symbolism behind the rose has religious connotations as it represents the Virgin Mary, who is often called the "Mystical Rose of Heaven". The Yorkist rose is white in colour, because in Christian liturgical symbolism, white is the symbol of light, typifying innocence and purity, joy and glory. During the civil wars of the fifteenth century, the White Rose was the symbol of Yorkist forces opposed to the rival House of Lancaster. The red rose of Lancaster would be a later invention used to represent the House of Lancaster, but was not in use during the actual conflict. The opposition
Blue Is the Warmest Colour US Blu-ray/DVD sales alone). On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 90% based on 175 reviews with a weighted average of 8.2/10. The site's critical consensus is: "Raw, honest, powerfully acted, and deliciously intense, "Blue Is the Warmest Colour" offers some of modern cinema's most elegantly composed, emotionally absorbing drama." On Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 based on reviews from mainstream critics, the film has a score of 88 averaged from 41 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". More than 40 critics named the film as one of the ten best of