La habitación azul

I always watch a Mexican movie with some of condescendent attitude, lowering my expectations so I cannot be too tough in my final judgment. I had no idea what the plot was and the very tag line plus today's Mexican show business hype promised something like an "evolved-but-limited" achievement.

But this movie impressed me *a lot*. I, as a Mexican person, love intensively those movies in which characters are developed in such way I catch myself thinking something like "yeah, that folk is like my old pal Miguel", or "those places definitely remind me childhood", and not that kind of plots with funny acting clichés that are intended to muck American movies.

Erotism has been a prime element in Mexican movies for so many years... but now we can thank G-d the days of cabaret, double-sense talk, erroneous poverty portrayals and sex with no obstacles are past.

In this movie, sexual intercourse is not of a climatic taste, but the seed of inevitable events whose consequences are rather bizarre.

I would spoil it if I said more. See it, enjoy it.

The movie takes place in a little town in Mexico where two friends meet after ten years, they are both married now and one of them works for his Mom in a little country store and the other one starts seeing his wife after one meeting in the woods. the movie starts to build up after one of the friends is caught and questioned by the police for murder? As a Mexican film fan, we are always bound to look for a improvement in the mexican scene, mostly because either movies are about sex or drugs, and that is not what the whole country is about. Aside from the fact that this movie deals with some sex scenes that rule the outcome of the movie, I was disappointed to "see" the ending long before it happened, and even though you get a great feeling for your premonition powers you also get an uneasy feeling of "deja vu", not that the acting isn't worth it, it just doesn't fill your expectations.

La habitacion Azul is an everyday story, it shows us nothing different from real life events. The rhythm is incredibly monotonous and totally predictable. The cast is OK but I think mexican productions are in great need of new talent, the same actor appear in several movies and all of a sudden you don't know you're watching a different one. I like to go to the movie theater to see something different, out of the ordinary, stories that challenge the imaginations, that go further than what we live.

Judging for the posters and trailers on TV, I thought I was gonna see sex, a great story, lots of nudity, sex and even more sex on this film... and I did, sort of. But all this is easily forgotten as the film goes on, 'cause the story is wonderfully told, jumping back and forth in time, but you never miss the present time. The twist the movie takes at the end was quickly catched by my brain, but that was the very minute that happened... I don't know if you understood me, but all this mess I just wrote was to tell you that by no excuse you should miss this movie, it is good to see a good mexican movie, with a great story that, by the way, anybody can be the star, sort of.

La habitación azul (The blue room) is a history of marriage infidelities in a small mexican town.

A man is returning to his town to live after a decade of live in the city. He found a friend marriend but ill and soon he start an affair with his friend's wife.

You may already have seen this story before but nevertheless, you want to know what is going on and how it is going to finish.

The picture has a blue dye-coloration that is not always justified and the edition could be smoother, but the acting is good and clever. On the other hand Elena Anaya looks beautiful.

If you like movies presented in flash backs it is worth to watch it.