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'The Blue Room' is a 2002 Mexican-Spanish film produced by Argos Cine and directed by Walter Doehner.

Plot



Too (Juan Manuel Bernal) is being held for questioning by police agent Garduo (Damin Alczar), a murder has been committed and Garduo is determined to get to the bottom of this; Too starts then telling his story: A few weeks before, he and his wife, Ana (Elena Anaya) and their daughter, decided to come back to settle down in Too's hometown, after living for a long time in Mexico City. But things get complicated when Too re-encounters Andrea (Patricia Llaca), a woman for whom he had lusted since adolescence and who's now married to Nicols (Mario Ivn Martnez), Too's best friend from high school.

Soon, the unfulfilled and repressed desires of both Too and Andrea are passionately released with their sexual encounter. Hiding from Too's wife and Andrea's husband, they are helped by Too's brother (Jos Mara Yazpik), who runs a hotel in the town, and whose blue room is lent to the lovers (hence the name of the film, "The Blue Room"). Despite these precautions, many people in the town figure out the affair between Too and Andrea, Too then starts considering ending his affair.

Meanwhile, Nicols' health is rapidly declining until one night he dies, and many people, including Nicols' mother Dora (Margarita Sanz), are convinced that Andrea caused his death in order for her to be free to be with Too. Garduo shows Too a letter from Andrea to him with the message "Now it's your turn" to further incriminate them, Too denies any culpability and continues his story.

Eventually, Ana realizes her husband's affair and they have a fight, causing Too to storm out of his house, when he returns he finds the police in his house who tell him that Ana has died from poisoning, the police agents then take him into custody.

Garduo then reveals to Too that he learned that Nicols with his death left a sizable inheritance to Andrea, he then accuses both her and Too of conspiring to murder both Ana and Nicols to keep the inheritance for themselves, and reveals that the final piece of the puzzle came to him via an anonymous written tip; However, both Too and Andrea deny any knowledge on the inheritance, Garduo then becomes doubtful of his own conclusion.

Despite that the evidence is enough to convict them, on a hunch, Garduo decides to pay a last visit to Dora, by sneaking into the kitchen of her bakery-shop, he finds that Dora was the source of the anonymous tip, as well as finding boxes of the same rat poison used to kill Ana, Garduo then confronts Dora with this who tearfully confesses having poisoned Too's wife in order to frame both him and Andrea of murder, since several years back her husband never forgave her of cheating on him, and as a result she never owned any of her shop, with her only son, Nicols', death it would only be a matter of time for Andrea to seize the entire shop and leave her with nothing.

Garduo then clears Too and Andrea, and releases them, that night after lovemaking in the same blue room, Andrea confesses to Too that the night Nicols died she purposely closed his oxygen valve, not just to end his suffering, but for both of them, shocking Too.

Controversy



The film was quite controversial due to its erotic advertising, most advertising materials showed Patricia Llaca fully nude lying on a bed and looking at the camera. Billboards and ads on public transport and in magazines, etc., showed the same or a similar picture, raising controversy thanks to Llaca's nudity. In some media, her buttocks were then digitally covered with a blanket to calm the sensitivities of offended Mexicans.

The film itself was indeed highly erotic, showing full nude scenes of both Patricia Llaca and Juan Manuel Bernal. In this sense, the advertising was true to the film. Llaca, however, declared that the film producers deliberately "used" her nude body to advertise the film.

Awards



In 2002, the film received the Silver Precolumbian Circle at the Bogota Film Festival in the category of best film and was nominated in the same year to receive the Golden Spike at the Valladolid International Film Festival.

See also



* 'The Blue Room' (2014)


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