Fiction
La Chambre bleue
The Blue Room
Mathieu Amalric
FRA 2014
76 min
V'14
A man and a woman, secretly in love, alone in a room. They desire each other, want each other, even bite each other. In the afterglow, they share a few sweet nothings. The man at least seems to believe they were nothing. Now under investigation by the police and the courts, Julien fails to find the words. What happened? What is he accused of ?
“When he wrote this novel in 1963, in Epalinges in Switzerland, Simenon was in a phase of permanent self-flagellation, such as ‘Women are witches, I shouldn’t have done it.’ It is a novel of punishment regarding sexuality – or regarding his own exuberant sexuality. And with Stephanie Cléau – who adapted the novel with me – we tried to erase it as we could.” (Mathieu Amalric)
Credits
- Léa Drucker - Delphine Gahyde
- Mathieu Amalric - Julien Gahyde
- Stéphanie Cléau - Esther Despierre
- Laurent Poitrenaux - Prosecutor
- SERGE BOZON - Chief of Police
- Mathieu Amalric
- Stéphanie Cléau
- Christophe Beaucarne
- Olivier Mauvezin
- Séverin Favriau
- Stéphane Thiébaut
- François Gedigier
- Grégoire Hetzel
- Christophe Offret
- «La Chambre bleue» von Georges Simenon (1963)
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