The Keeping Room Movie

The Keeping Room Movie Rating: 3,3/5 9685 reviews

Furious seasons and other stories movie. Based on Julia Hart’s revered 2012 Black List screenplay, and directed by Academy Award® Nominated Daniel Barber (Harry Brown), The Keeping Room is a tense and uncompromising tale of survival that also shatters both gender and genre conventions. Sep 25, 2014  Based on Julia Hart’s revered 2012 Black List screenplay, and directed by Academy Award® Nominated Daniel Barber (Harry Brown), The Keeping Room is.

The Keeping Room
Directed byDaniel Barber
Produced by
  • Patrick Newall
  • Judd Payne
Written byJulia Hart
Starring
Music byMartin Phipps
CinematographyMartin Ruhe
Edited byÁlex Rodríguez
  • Gilbert Films
  • Wind Dancer Productions
Distributed by
Release date
  • September 2014 (TIFF)
  • September 25, 2015 (United States)
95 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$31,168[2]

The Keeping Room is a 2014 American actiondrama film directed by Daniel Barber and written by Julia Hart. The film stars Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld, Muna Otaru, Sam Worthington, Amy Nuttall, and Ned Dennehy. It was screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.[3] The film was in a limited release in the United States on September 25, 2015, by Drafthouse Films.[4] The film was made available on Netflix US on May 4, 2016.[5]

Plot[edit]

Left without men in the dying days of the American Civil War, three Southern women—two white sisters and one African-American slave—must fight to defend their home and themselves from two rogue soldiers who have broken off from the fast-approaching Union Army. Moses, one of these 'bummers' (soldiers sent in advance to forage for food, and find any deserters or survivors), warns Augusta, the elder sister: 'Uncle Billy's coming, burning down everything in his path. Rest assured, it will be cruel.'

Cast[edit]

  • Brit Marling[6] as Augusta
  • Hailee Steinfeld[7] as Louise
  • Muna Otaru[8] as Mad
  • Sam Worthington[9] as Moses
  • Kyle Soller as Henry
  • Ned Dennehy as Caleb
  • Amy Nuttall as Moll
  • Nicholas Pinnock as Bill

Production[edit]

The film was first announced in October 2012.[10] Hart's script was inspired by her learning that her friends had two skeletons dating from the Civil War in their backyards and wondering how they got there.[11] Initially the film was to star Olivia Wilde;[7] she later left and was replaced by Brit Marling.[6]Sam Worthington rounded out the cast in April 2013.[9]

Filming[edit]

Principal photography began in June 2013 in Bucharest, Romania, and ended on July 18, 2013.[12]

Reception[edit]

The Keeping Room received mixed to positive reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, it holds a 74% rating, averaging a 6.39/10 score, sampled from 84 reviews. The consensus states: 'Aided by its spare setting and committed performances, The Keeping Room is just fascinatingly off-kilter enough to overcome its frustrating stumbles.'[13] On Metacritic, it has a score of 58 out of 100, based on 21 critics' reviews, indicating 'mixed or average reviews'.[14]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^'THE KEEPING ROOM (15)'. British Board of Film Classification. February 23, 2016. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  2. ^'The Keeping Room (2015) - International Box Office Results'. Box Office Mojo. Internet Movie Database. December 6, 2015. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  3. ^Punter, Jennie (July 22, 2014). 'Toronto Film Festival Lineup Includes Denzel Washington's 'Equalizer,' Kate Winslet's 'A Little Chaos''. Variety. Retrieved July 22, 2014.
  4. ^'The Keeping Room'. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  5. ^Pease, Jasmin. 'New Releases on Netflix US (May 4, 2016)'. Retrieved May 4, 2016.
  6. ^ abHofmann, Tess (April 25, 2013). 'Olivia Wilde Out, Brit Marling In For 'The Keeping Room' With Hailee Steinfeld'. Indiewire. The Playlist (blog). Retrieved July 27, 2013.
  7. ^ abArmitage, Hugh (October 31, 2013). 'Olivia Wilde, Hailee Steinfeld star in 'The Keeping Room''. Digital Spy. Retrieved July 27, 2013.
  8. ^Obenson, Tambay (November 25, 2013). 'Muna Otaru..in Civil War Thriller 'The Keeping Room' (First Look)'. Indiewire. Retrieved July 22, 2013.
  9. ^ abFleming, Mike, Jr (April 29, 2013). 'Sam Worthington to Star in 'The Keeping Room''. Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved July 27, 2013.
  10. ^The Deadline Team (October 30, 2013). 'AFM: Wind Dancer Films to Finance, Produce 'The Keeping Room', Daniel Barber Will Direct'. Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved July 27, 2013.
  11. ^Bahr, Lindsey. ''The Keeping Room' shows violence, feminism in Civil War'. Associate Press. Retrieved January 26, 2016.
  12. ^Blaga, Iulia (July 16, 2013). 'The Keeping Room About to Wrap Shooting in Romania'. Film New Europe. Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  13. ^'The Keeping Room (2015)'. Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved May 19, 2019.
  14. ^'The Keeping Room'. Metacritic. Retrieved September 26, 2015.

External links[edit]

  • The Keeping Room on IMDb
  • The Keeping Room at Box Office Mojo
  • The Keeping Room at Rotten Tomatoes
  • The Keeping Room at Metacritic
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“Room's' power to touch audiences, as it clearly did when it won the People’s Choice Award at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, lies in the film’s delicately rendered and highly relatable core relationship. It's why this small-of-budget—yet large-of-heart—drama is being pegged as a deserved awards season contender.

The first two-thirds of “Room” greatly depend on the ability to build a believable, primal connection between its central characters, known as Ma and Jack, one that at times feels as if the umbilical cord has yet to be severed. Director Lenny Abrahamson (working from an adapted script by Donoghue) could not ask for a better pairing than Brie Larson, who continues to find new ways to astonish with her raw honesty, and Jacob Tremblay, a small wonder whose greatest gift is a preternatural ability to never seem as though he is acting.

The 11-by-11 box of a living space that they share at least has a small skylight that allows some semblance of nature to enter. But the room’s sun, as well as the moon and the stars, is Jack, who has never known any other environment. Thanks to Ma’s unwavering efforts, he is a bright, energetic, healthy bundle of happiness, well-versed in at least some literature—he knows who Jack the Giant Killer is as well as Samson, a hero he relates to since his own hair hangs beyond his shoulders. He is an avid watcher of “Dora the Explorer” and her animated adventures. But to him, the room represents reality in its totality while TV is just make-believe.

As for Ma, her whole focus is on Jack’s well-being and rarely her own. She ignores a painful rotting tooth in her mouth until it falls out and it immediately becomes one of her son’s most prized possessions. She is endlessly resourceful, turning cardboard toilet paper rolls and egg shells connected by string into playthings. For her, Jack is her anchor and her reason to carry on. How else could she withstand the regular visits from her imprisoner, dubbed Old Nick (played by Sean Bridgers) most likely because he comes at night and sometimes brings much-needed supplies? In return, Old Nick forces himself upon her regularly as Jack holes up in a wardrobe, supposedly asleep but usually awake during these noisy episodes. That we share Jack's limited perspective makes the encounters all the more unnerving.