For many years we have known that Amalric is one of the best actors in French cinema, but over time we are also confirming that he is also one of the most valuable directors. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 27, 2023

Lukewarm when it should boil and tepid when it should chill to the bone

| Jul 2, 2021

The Blue Room is very engaging and concise thriller something that works great for the fall season.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 11, 2020

It's depiction of an adulterous affair is icy, complicated, isolating, but it's a thrillingly and strikingly photographed film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 5, 2019

Sensuality, intrigue, complexity, sin, hypnotism, concentration, contrasts: of all this is there in The Blue Room... [Full review in Spanish]

| Nov 20, 2017

... Amalric manages to sustain an unyielding level of suspense throughout the film and delivers it with beautiful cinematography and a musical score worthy of an old Hitchcock flick.

| Jun 20, 2017

Amalric jigsaws the pieces, conjuring a taut, tense air of Chabrol as he does.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 28, 2016

In The Blue Room, Mathieu Amalric directs and stars in an updated version of the 1964 Georges Simenon novel about adultery and death in a small town.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2016

Mathieu Amalric and partner Stphanie Clau make a potent team both behind and in front of the camera in this steamy French noir that manages to get its dark thrills wrapped up in a trim and tidy 76 minutes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 12, 2016

An unfolding police investigation leaves us guessing until the final moment just what exactly happened when an illicit love affair turned bad.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 11, 2016

An artfully composed mix of crime mystery, erotic melodrama, police procedural and courtroom drama, [this] compact 75-minute movie is upfront about nudity but very teasing when it comes to revealing its plot.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 10, 2016

On the evidence here, former Bond villain Amalric is every bit as accomplished a director as he is an actor.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 9, 2016

[Almaric] aims for what he calls the "permanent pleasure of doubt" and he succeeds - but sometimes the doubt is alienating and we long for some of the passion we saw in that blue room at the start.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 9, 2016

The Blue Room could usefully stand as a model of cinematic miniaturism.

| Sep 8, 2016

Although The Blue Room is elegantly handled it has a very brief running time and ends up feeling rushed and sketchy rather than fully realised and satisfying.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 8, 2016

Bursting with melancholy insight.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 8, 2016

Taut, tense and teasing, this fascinating exercise in screen storytelling keeps viewers guessing whether the prime suspect might just be a victim.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2016

Our vantage point as a spectator of this cruel sport gives us a privy to the "truth" of what Julien did or didn't do - only for the film to slap us back into the realisation that in cinema, truth and lies get along swimmingly, and for our own pleasure.

| May 11, 2016

For most of the snappy length, the question isn't so much what he's done, but what's been done, to whom and why; only in the final couple of minutes does the last of the puzzle pieces fall into place.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 5, 2016

Clocking in at a brisk 75 minutes, the film wastes little time in propelling forward its whodunit? narrative.

| Original Score: B | Feb 26, 2016