I had some .....comments and wanted other opinions, so here goes:   

Where the heck were the chaperones for this group of girls? I don't know about you, but all of the teachers I ever had would have noticed one of their students following an adult around, yelling at him, hanging on him, and then disappearing with him for extended periods of time! And none of my teachers were ever nuns!

Kaysm

Chili's Blues isn't one of my faves. Personally, Roy with slicked-back hair just doesn't do much for me. But to avoid seeming superficial, the plotline itself didn't do much for me either. I thought the whole thing was kind of weird & at times it seemed very contrived - and as you mentioned, unbelievable.

(There are no English subtitles available for this movie, as far as I know. 
There is French close-captioning, though, which enabled me to follow it
fairly well.)

So we have a bunch of people stranded in a train station during a blizzard. 
A young vacuum-cleaner salesman (Roy Dupuis) and a suicidal teenager (Lucie
Laurier) spend pretty much the entire movie talking about the meaning, or
lack of meaning, of life. In other words, Existentialism 101.

The story takes place in 1963, right after the assassination of John F.
Kennedy.  The teenaged Chili ("like the sauce"), is filled with despair, and
the salesman, Pierre-Paul, tries to sell her on life.  He fetches her
aspirin.  He pours water into her mouth from a cradle he makes from his
hands.  He plays games with her.  He makes love to her.  At twelve after
twelve, the trains start running again; he goes on his way, and she puts the
gun in her bag.  Stating the obvious -- he still wants to live, and she
doesn't.

There is symbolism all over the place, as you might expect in this type of
movie.  My favorite incredibly obvious piece of symbolism (it actually made
me laugh out loud) is when Chili and Pierre-Paul are making out on the floor
of a storeroom.  A train station employee comes in and pulls something off
the shelves, accidentally knocking over a jar of maraschino cherries.  The
cherries explode onto the floor.  I mean, come on.

I always comment on the Roy content in my reviews, and I am happy to report
that he and Lucie Laurier are the focus of the movie. He looks different
than in most of his other films; he wears a conventional sixties suit and
his hair is very short and un-Roy-like. At different points during the
movie, Chili and Pierre-Paul talk about Maurice Richard, the Dionne
quintuplets, and Marlon Brando.  Later in his career, Roy Dupuis did movies
with or about all of them.  What are the odds?

The acting is quite good, the dialogue is clever, and some of the imagery is
very interesting.  I was never once bored.  All in all, it's much better
than Free Money.  But then again, everything is better than Free Money.

Two and a half stars,

Billie
http://www.billiedoux.com/