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Room (2016) 9.3

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Completed On: 22 Jan, 2016

Director: Lenny Abrahamson

Duration: 1 hr 58 min 0 sec

Genres: Fiction

Language: English

Country: United States

Submitted By: Anna Maurice

Festival Rating

Room opens with the sound of breathing, expressionist images of a scratched wall, a sink, a skylight and the whispered words: “Go back to sleep…” This is the 10ft x 10ft sealed enclosure in which five-year-old Jack (Jacob Tremblay) lives with his “Ma” (Brie Larson, also Oscar-nominated), a young woman who, like Alice, fell down a rabbit hole when she was abducted seven years ago. For Ma, this is a prison, but for Jack, “Room” is an entire world that goes in “every direction, all the way to the end”. Thanks to Danny Cohen’s superb cinematography (close, yet wide), “Room” seems as large to us as it does to Jack – from the ocean of the lavatory cistern in which a paper boat floats, to the caves under the bed where the eggshell snake lives and the safety of the wardrobe in which Jack sleeps. Room is astonishing: It transmutes a lurid, true-crime situation into a fairy tale in which fairy tales are a source of survival.
The evil depicted in Room is hard to fathom, but the good is even more mysterious: the capacity of a child — when guarded by a loving parent — to project warmth onto the coldest, most malevolent environment. We’ve seen survival stories featuring people on desert islands or at sea, but it’s the boy sustained by a room that’s the most amazing.

  • Film Type
    Fiction
  • Genres
    Drama,Thriller
  • Runtime
    1 hours 58 minutes 0 seconds
  • Completion Date
    22 Jan, 2016
  • Production Budget
    USD
  • Country of Origin
    United States
  • Country of Filming
  • Film Language
    English
  • Shooting Format
  • Aspect Ratio
  • Film Color
    Color
  • Student Project
    No
  • First-time Filmmaker
    No

Director's Biography

Lenny Abrahamson was born in Dublin in 1966. He studied physics and philosophy at Trinity College Dublin. While at university he directed short videos with the Trinity Video Society, which he co-founded with Ed Guiney. He graduated in 1991 with first-class honours (gold medal). His first short film, 3 Joes, won the Best European Short Film Award at the 1991 Cork Film Festival and the Organiser's Award at the 1992 Oberhausen Short Film Festival. He directed numerous commercials for television in Ireland, the UK and worldwide before taking the helm on his first feature film, Adam & Paul, a stylized downbeat comedy written by Mark O'Halloran and released in 2004. Adam and Paul won the Best First Feature award at the 2004 Galway Film Fleadh and the Grand Prix at the 2005 Sofia International Film Festival. His second feature film, Garage, another collaboration with writer Mark O' Halloran, was selected for Director's Fortnight at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and won the CICAE Art and Essai award. The film also won the awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Script and Best Actor at the 2008 Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTAs). Lenny has also directed for television: his four one-hour TV films for RTE, Prosperity, also won the Best Director for TV award 2008 Irish Film and Television Awards. What Richard Did, his third feature was released in 2012 to critical acclaim. The film, written by Malcolm Campbell, presents a stark portrait of a privileged Dublin teen whose world unravels with one summer night. What Richard Did premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival and was also selected for the 2012 BFI London Film Festival. Lenny's fourth feature, Frank, a comedy about a young wannabe musician starring Michael Fassbender and Domhnall Gleeson, will be shooting in Winter 2012.

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