You see with Jess Franco's cinema everything could be found in the sensuality of the project. Blue Rita is a spy movie, but underneath that genre facade there is an exercise in womanhood and how that influences the world that we are living. Uncle Jess loved women and the beauty of women that is crystal clear, if you have seen only one movie of his. He used the female body as a naked canvas in order to give power, mystic and mysterious atmosphere to his movies. In Blue Rita we see women using their body and sexuality to seduce men. We also see the female protagonist how she uses her body in order to get her work done, how she uses her body to serve a righteous purpose. We as spectators, we find ourselves dichotomized between the sexuality of the image and the cruelty of the act. We like what we see, but we detest the reason. And it's that duality that you can find in Blue Rita where something beautiful and pretty is also synonymous with evil and pain. In Blue Rita the filmic universe is made from contradictory elements.
Jess Franco used genre cinema to get even deeper to the human mind and perception. Many have called him a clown and the worst director in the history of movies, but they are totally clueless when it comes to the fact that Jess Franco's movies had something very strong that went deep into the human psychology. Yes, his movies might have been amateurish, but inside his "flaws" you could see that he was a true visionary filmmaker who could turn the simplest movie idea to a complex erotic, morbid, sinister, horrific, sexually playful cinema experience. And in Blue Rita you can see, once more, taking the fun genre of spy movies and transforming them to an act of style, passion, secrets, games and danger. He was that man a true artist that could take one simple and tiny thing and make it to a big, huge B movie phantasmagoria.
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