Sweet and sticky

La Chambre bleue (The blue room)

Crit

My favorite acteur français, Mathieu Amalric, cowrote (from a novel by Georges Simenon), directed, and stars in the most unhurried 75-minute murder mystery you'll ever see. Not only is it a whodunit, it teases us for almost the entire length re exactly whom it was done to. The only thing that's clear is that both Esther (Stéphanie Cléau) and Julien (Amalric) have motives (respectively, love and maybe love but certainly the best sex he's ever had) to have conspired in the doing.

Notable also as the only French film I've ever seen, and maybe the only film I've seen full stop, in which a character's job is selling and maintaining John Deere farm implements.