“Blue” (** out of four) was an overreaching emotional melodrama about a young woman (Callie Schuttera) suffering from depression and anxiety who is fired from her job and loses her grandmother and then attempts suicide and is placed in a hospital where she has to re-evaluate her life. Give writer-director Gabriela Ledesma points for tacking tough subject matter but in attempting to make a movie about the difficulties of finding help for one’s mental health, an indictment about the health care system, and personal/professional relationship problems- she’s taken on more than she can juggle and it grows tiresome after a while. Byetheway, for hard-core film fanatics like me- this is not a remake of Krzystof Kieslowski’s 1993 “Blue” which covered a similar storyline.

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