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The Blue Room

La chambre bleue (The Blue Room)

2014

Mathieu Amalric

Mathieu Amalric, Léa Drucker, Laurent Poitrenaux, Stéphanie Cléau ...

6.3

750

Mystery. Romance. Drama A man and a woman, secretly in love, alone in a room. They desire each other, want each other, and even bite each other. In the afterglow, they share a few sweet nothings. At least the man seemed to believe they were nothing. Now under investigation by the police and the courts, what is he accused of?

	Author	Review
United States	Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter	"An impressive and impressionistic romantic thriller from one of France’s finest working actors (...) While this may be the actor-director’s most polished feature yet, it’s far from a traditional suspense movie"	POS
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"Amalric’s exceedingly neat film doesn’t conjure the breath-holding intensity of mood that marks cinema’s best Simenon adaptations"	NEU
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Mr. Amalric, who directed this dark, delectable, shivery tale, adapting it from the Georges Simenon novel, sets its uneasy, dank mood with energetic economy."	POS
United States	Elizabeth Weitzman New York Daily News	"The mystery is pretty low-key and the resolution somewhat disappointing. But Amalric is mesmerizing and the film’s taut, chilly tone leaves us unnerved. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"Everything’s told in shards, and Amalric does very well to create a sense of emotional continuum amid all the procedural detail. His own performance is fantastic, jittery and dishevelled. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS

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