![]() Mathieu Amalric's The Blue Room is an engaging erotic thriller about Julien, a middle-aged salesman who is embroiled in a love affair with a married woman, Esther. After their latest rendezvous, Esther and Julien fantasize about being together forever, but what Julian belives to be nothing more than sweet nothings quickly escalates, with Julian finding himself in the middle of a police investigation after Esther and Julien's respective partners turn up dead. Told in an elliptical fashion, Mathieu Amalric's The Blue Room is a beguiling experience, keeping the viewer engaged yet in the dark, up until the end of the film. This is a film that sets out to capture the darker side of love and how it can transform into obsession, almost like a stripped-down version of Fincher's Gone-Girl that is more focused. Well-crafted, The Blue Room feels like an accomplished film but its simplicity hurts the film as much as it helps it. The Blue Room's story is very straighforward, missing opportunities to further explore its characters, merely satisfied in its intrigue-filled premise. While I appreciated how stripped down and focused The Blue Room is, Esther and Julien are way to simplisitically portrayed, with The Blue Room never taking the time to fully develop them. A tight, engaging thriller, The Blue Room is a film to be appreciated for its simplicity, although this simplicity derails the film from being the poignant study of two characters overtaken by their carnal desires that could have been.
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June 2023
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