Room (2015)

	Also Known As: Raum, La habitación
	Year of first release: 2015
	Director: Lenny Abrahamson
	Actors: Brie Larson, Benjamin Tremblay
	Country: CDN, IRL
	Genre: Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 29.02.2016, Schauburg, English version with German subtitle
Synopsis: Ma (Larson) and Jack (Tremblay) are living together in a room. Sometimes Old Nick is coming in and gives some food. But he is always mean against Ma. And nobody can do anything. Jack is just getting 5 years old, when Ma has a plan.
Review: The story is amazingly emotional. It is not easy to talk about it afterwards. The first things coming in mind are the reality and the few cases seen in the newsin the last years (Natascha Kampusch kept 8 years in Austria, all the victims of Marc Dutroux in Belgium).  This story is the story of the world seen by Jack and told by Ma. The "world", the "outer space", the "room". The story of the mother-child relationship in extreme conditions. This is beautiful. With five Jack is not small anymore. And the story does not end when they escape. The way is long still. And Jack finds his way. I hadn't seen such poetry in the parent-child relationship since Beasts of the Southern wild. The dialogues are both poetic and terribly dramatic. In a devil world it is important to keep poetry in the mind. In this sense, the story reminds me La vita è bella by Roberto Benigni even if the environments are diffent, both are extremely oppressive.  The acting of both is really authentic so that the force of the dialogues are loading the heart.  The camera driving does not have much space to show and to compose, but the first part in the room allows to make the difference of the room with the outer space in a very subtle way. Again beautiful directing. This makes me curious of this promising Irish director.
Rating: 8 /10