"The Blue Hour" is a 90-minute drama movie about a German hustler (and all the people he meets from over 20 years ago. Even if the film is from 1992, it looks still older than that. very amateurish production. I am not sure, if this was intended to make it seem as if it has an indie look, but actually it looks just unappealing. The film's writer and director is Marcel Gisler. He was roughly 30 back then and still makes films today, not too prolific though. His two co-writers play crucial parts in the movie, one of them is the central character. But they are completely unknown. I don't know if that's also the case for the early 1990s, but none of the cast is a familiar name in Germany right now.
The film also has lots of French talk, so subtitles won't hurt, even if this is not listed in languages here on IMDb. Actually, there is much more French than Swiss German. The main character also seems to have a bit of bisexual tendencies as he seems to have an interest into his female neighbor. One of the core conflicts of the movie is about the ways in which it is possibly to have a normal relationship and still work as a male hustler. Another would be life as a hustler in general and the question of cheating and if it really is cheating if it is an affair with a woman. Anyway, all in all I was really underwhelmed by this movie. It was just never truly interesting, in terms of characters and story. To me, it looks like a very poor attempt at a Rainer Werner Fassbinder movie. Not recommended.
The film also has lots of French talk, so subtitles won't hurt, even if this is not listed in languages here on IMDb. Actually, there is much more French than Swiss German. The main character also seems to have a bit of bisexual tendencies as he seems to have an interest into his female neighbor. One of the core conflicts of the movie is about the ways in which it is possibly to have a normal relationship and still work as a male hustler. Another would be life as a hustler in general and the question of cheating and if it really is cheating if it is an affair with a woman. Anyway, all in all I was really underwhelmed by this movie. It was just never truly interesting, in terms of characters and story. To me, it looks like a very poor attempt at a Rainer Werner Fassbinder movie. Not recommended.