'The Blue Room': French Film 101

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Mathieu Amalric enjoys his secret affair with a flame from his school years. He thinks they are careful and no one suspects that Stephanie Cleau are up to something when her husband leaves for work. She runs the pharmacy downstairs and leaves a red towel over the balcony rail when the coast is clear. Lea Drucker is his devoted wife who has a feeling something is "up".

The film is a mash-up of time lines weaving in-and-out that seemingly give the editor a leading role. The bobbing and weaving isn't confusing but just below aggravation.

As with most small French film there is a lot of face time capturing long pauses, soulful looks, and sparse dialogue made meaningful by the first two conditions. There is the requisite struggle between spouse and lover which leads to regrettable circumstances as Amalric becomes ensnared his lover's moves to make them one.

Classically, the film ends on a down note which has a tacked on feeling I've felt many times before.

Since this is Netflix there is little investment required.

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Topic - 'The Blue Room': French Film 101 - Billy Wonka 15:46:12 08/26/15 (3)

seemed redundant, I was bored and stopped watching early - PhilJ 18:50:57 08/29/15 (0)

101 is right - Victor Khomenko 16:11:06 08/26/15 (1)

Whaaaa, there wasn't enough skin . . . - Billy Wonka 20:38:49 08/26/15 (0)

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