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The Blue Room

2014 · 1h 16m · R Crime, Romance, Thriller
Directed by Mathieu Amalric

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Overview

In their blue hotel room, a clandestine couple of two married lovers plan an impossible future, as death shutters their already frail tranquillity. Now, the noose tightens more and more around innocents and sinners; but, was there a crime?

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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes

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All reviews
88%
Tomatometer
Fresh

The ultimate triumph in what Amalric has done is to show us all the different forces that can be at work in an affair.

David Thomson, The New Republic
Fresh

A dazzling deconstruction of the mystery genre that turns its conventions on their heads.

Tirdad Derakhshani, Philadelphia Inquirer
Fresh

'The Blue Room" is a tight little look at love gone wrong, something of a stripped-down French "Gone Girl" without the surprises.

Tom Long, Detroit News
Fresh

It's an accomplished film, if a bit cool and tidy; you wish there were a little more to it.

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Rotten

The pleasure of a whodunit generally derives from trying to figure out who done it, but in the case of this arty, terminally obscure French mystery, most of the story has already transpired before one can even piece together what was done.

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader

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