The story follows (Dina Korzun), a young Russian woman living a life of affluent but hollow comfort with her much older partner, Alan James (Rip Torn), a legendary and cantankerous music producer. Though Alan provides a wealthy lifestyle, he is emotionally distant and frequently unfaithful.
The film was about a man who painted the sea. Not the happy, tourist-postcard sea, but the sea after a storm, the sea at twilight, the sea seen through a window after a lover has left. He mixed his blues with ash and silence. Prussian blue, cobalt, cerulean, ultramarine—each one a different kind of absence.
So why should you watch "Forty Shades of Blue"? Here are just a few reasons:
The film captures the "blues" of Memphis perfectly through its lighting and pace.
The story is set in Memphis and follows (Dina Korzun), a Russian woman living as the "trophy girlfriend" of Alan James (Rip Torn), a legendary and often belligerent music producer. Laura lives a life of material comfort but deep emotional emptiness, often masking her ennui with makeup and white wine.