Director and star Mathieu Amalric in The Blue Room: "I thought a lot of the usual suspects. A man sitting and looking, and he is not listening."
Mathieu Amalric's The Blue Room (La Chambre Bleue) is based on Georges Simenon's novel. Amalric stars with Stéphanie Cléau, Léa Drucker with Serge Bozon, Mona Jaffart, Laurent Poitrenaux and Blutch in his whodunnit with a question mark for each molded part - the who, the done and especially the it.
David Lynch's Lost Highway - William Holden's death - Gene Hackman and Kevin Costner in Roger Donaldson's No Way Out form a thread. Katharine Hepburn on a ladder climbing up to Cary Grant in Howard Hawks' Bringing Up Baby, editing with François Gédigier and Bozon's voice are heard in part 2 of our conversation.
Anne-Katrin Titze: You mentioned how quickly Simenon wrote the book and you also said...
Mathieu Amalric's The Blue Room (La Chambre Bleue) is based on Georges Simenon's novel. Amalric stars with Stéphanie Cléau, Léa Drucker with Serge Bozon, Mona Jaffart, Laurent Poitrenaux and Blutch in his whodunnit with a question mark for each molded part - the who, the done and especially the it.
David Lynch's Lost Highway - William Holden's death - Gene Hackman and Kevin Costner in Roger Donaldson's No Way Out form a thread. Katharine Hepburn on a ladder climbing up to Cary Grant in Howard Hawks' Bringing Up Baby, editing with François Gédigier and Bozon's voice are heard in part 2 of our conversation.
Anne-Katrin Titze: You mentioned how quickly Simenon wrote the book and you also said...
- 10/9/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Blue Room
Written for the screen by Mathieu Amalric and Stéphanie Cléau
Directed by Mathieu Amalric
France, 2014
The Blue Room is a chilling procedural that makes its viewers endure the hardships of infidelity. The film wallows in distrust and jealousy, fashioned as a modern day noir minus the mystique of that genre’s era, celebrating a general sense of hopelessness and despair. Director Mathieu Amalric (also playing Julien Gahyde in the film) uses sex and nudity as a dramatic device pushing scandal and urgency, but only through enticing flashes. Esther (played by co-screenwriter Stéphanie Cléau) is a symbol that informs one of sensual danger, consistent from the film’s alluring beginning to its dire end. She’s a cliché, typical of a noir’s femme fatale. The Blue Room is, in fact, a cliché of life’s desires – rich in dreams and passion, with the potential to destroy its realities through dire consequences.
Written for the screen by Mathieu Amalric and Stéphanie Cléau
Directed by Mathieu Amalric
France, 2014
The Blue Room is a chilling procedural that makes its viewers endure the hardships of infidelity. The film wallows in distrust and jealousy, fashioned as a modern day noir minus the mystique of that genre’s era, celebrating a general sense of hopelessness and despair. Director Mathieu Amalric (also playing Julien Gahyde in the film) uses sex and nudity as a dramatic device pushing scandal and urgency, but only through enticing flashes. Esther (played by co-screenwriter Stéphanie Cléau) is a symbol that informs one of sensual danger, consistent from the film’s alluring beginning to its dire end. She’s a cliché, typical of a noir’s femme fatale. The Blue Room is, in fact, a cliché of life’s desires – rich in dreams and passion, with the potential to destroy its realities through dire consequences.
- 10/6/2014
- by Christopher Clemente
- SoundOnSight
The Blue Room director Mathieu Amalric with Anne-Katrin Titze: "What is incredible is that, yes, the bee is in [George Simenon's] novel on the belly." Photo: Charlie Olsky
Mathieu Amalric's The Blue Room (La Chambre Bleue), based on Georges Simenon's novel, stars Stéphanie Cléau, Léa Drucker with Serge Bozon, Mona Jaffart, Laurent Poitrenaux and Blutch. Amalric recently starred with Emmanuelle Seigner in Roman Polanski's Venus in Fur.
The morning after the North American premiere at the New York Film Festival, we discussed Simenon's love of Stendahl, leaving a message for composer John Zorn, Katharine Hepburn on a ladder, adapting Eric Reinhardt for the stage, William Holden's death in connection to David Lynch, Gene Hackman and Kevin Costner, bees and shoes.
Léa Drucker as Delphine Gahyde
Vladimir Nabokov warned in Transparent Things "When we concentrate on a material object, whatever its situation, the very act of attention may...
Mathieu Amalric's The Blue Room (La Chambre Bleue), based on Georges Simenon's novel, stars Stéphanie Cléau, Léa Drucker with Serge Bozon, Mona Jaffart, Laurent Poitrenaux and Blutch. Amalric recently starred with Emmanuelle Seigner in Roman Polanski's Venus in Fur.
The morning after the North American premiere at the New York Film Festival, we discussed Simenon's love of Stendahl, leaving a message for composer John Zorn, Katharine Hepburn on a ladder, adapting Eric Reinhardt for the stage, William Holden's death in connection to David Lynch, Gene Hackman and Kevin Costner, bees and shoes.
Léa Drucker as Delphine Gahyde
Vladimir Nabokov warned in Transparent Things "When we concentrate on a material object, whatever its situation, the very act of attention may...
- 10/1/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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