La habitación azul is a Mexican

Mexico

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-Spanish

Spain

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 film produced by Argos Cine and directed by Walter Doehner.

Plot

Toño (Juan Manuel Bernal) and his wife, Ana (Elena Anaya

Elena Anaya

Elena Anaya is a Spanish actress whose career dates back to 1995.Anaya is the youngest of 5 children. She first received international attention in 2001 for her role in the sexually explicit drama Lucía y el sexo and also appeared in Pedro Almodóvar's Hable con ella .Her best-known Hollywood film...

), decide to come back to their home town, after living for a long time in Mexico City

Mexico City

Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

. But things get complicated when Toño finds Andrea (Patricia Llaca

Patricia Llaca

Patricia Llaca is a Mexican actress who has participated both in films, soap operas and TV shows. She is also sometimes credited as Patricia De Llaca.She is best known for her role as Andrea in the film La Habitación Azul....

), a woman for whom he had lusted since adolescence, in the town.

Thus, the unfulfilled and repressed desires of both Toño and Andrea are passionately released with their sexual encounter.

Hiding from Toño's wife and Andrea's husband (played by Mario Iván Martínez), they are helped by Toño's brother (José María 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").

Controversy

The film was quite controversial due to its erotic advertising, most advertising materials used an of 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

Golden spike

The "Golden Spike" is the ceremonial final spike driven by Leland Stanford to join the rails of the First Transcontinental Railroad across the United States connecting the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory...

 at the Valladolid International Film Festival.