Monday, June 22, 2015
Who done it?
Today's little gem of a "detective" story is riveting.
La chambre bleue / The Blue Room (2014)
Mathieu Amalric, a long time favorite of mine, adapted this George Simenon story, directed it and stars as the canny or conned man who finds his wife dead and then is accused of doing it.
The film is only 75 minutes long and very skillfully constructed to keep us guessing the whole time. In the manner of Alfred Hitchcock. We know some things "they" do not know but then there are a few things that Amalric knows that he is not telling.
The point of view keeps shifting with enough space to see how the director is placing his "evidence" before this.
I enjoyed it very much and would not mind seeing it again sometime. A 4 out of Netflix5.
And still to this day, in my book, Mathieu Amalric can do no wrong! Even if he did do it. But then again, did he?
Labels: films
