Like a corpse about to be autopsied, the mystery that is laid bare by “The Blue Room” hardly requires even the economical 76 minutes that director Mathieu Amalric expends on it. Two naked ...

Stéphanie Cléau and Mathieu Amalric star in French thriller, “The Blue Room.” Few filmmakers have been able to accurately portray the brusque, darkly nuanced tones of love. This rendition of love, ...

The movie, based on a Georges Simenon novel, has been adapted by director/cowriter/star Mathieu Amalric. The Blue Room opens with blood dripping from the lip of Amalric’s character, Julien ...

There are two blue rooms in the spellbinding new feature by actor-director Mathieu Amalric: the provincial hotel room where a couple conducts an adulterous affair, and the courtroom where they ...

When the prolific Belgian author Georges Simenon published this simmering psychological thriller in 1964, French culture was in thrall to the nouveau roman and the nouvelle vague. With its ...

A scene from the movie The Blue Room. Julien, married with a daughter, is a dealer in agricultural machinery in a provincial town; Esther is the wife of the local pharmacist who, we will learn ...