The Blue Room * *

What’s the point?  

Wanna do some more sex?
Meh.... what's the point?

That’s all I could think at the end of this. What’s the point in making it? What’s the point they’re trying to make?  What's the point in calling it The Blue Room when there is a famous David Hare play of the same name? What’s the point in the courtroom scene when the outcome is obvious from the outset?  What’s the point in spending money and then sitting through it? (That last question was to myself).

A middle aged salesman who is happily married has an affair with an old friend's wife. She rolls around on the bed with her legs open, he bounces around the bedroom with his appendage flapping, thus earning the film a pointless R certificate. I didn't mind all that sex and flesh but again, what’s the point?  Maybe it’s just to show she bites hard when she has sex, so she must be a psychopath hey? Personally I thought all French women did that… (whoops that’ll get me in trouble).

Anyway, it’s not supposed to be about their sexy affair; it’s about the consequences when his wife and her husband both die.  

How convenient one might think.  

How suspicious the police think.

We know something's up from the beginning because they are both arrested and we realise that all this passionate sex in the blue room in a budget hotel is being shown to us in flashback.

I can only guess they were having such a fun time shooting the sex scenes they didn’t realise their plot was hanging out.

Good points - beautiful lighting - especially in the bedroom scenes.  Very fine acting.  Fascinating insight into the French judicial system. (If it was't for the full on sex scenes it could be used for law students)

Bad points - a thriller with no surprises.  No one is particularly interesting.   A plot with very little plot.

All in all, a plodding and rather pointless film.