''In My Room'' is a 2018 German
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
directed by . It was screened in the
Un Certain Regard
(, meaning 'a certain glance') is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's official selection. It is run at the Debussy, parallel to the competition for the . This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob.
The section presents 20 films w ...
section at the
2018 Cannes Film Festival
The 71st annual Cannes Film Festival was held from 8 to 19 May 2018. Australian actress Cate Blanchett acted as President of the Jury. The Japanese film ''Shoplifters'', directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, won the Palme d'Or.
Asghar Farhadi's psycho ...
.
Plot
Hans Löw plays Armin, a cameraman whose professional and personal lives are dysfunctional. He suddenly finds himself apparently the only survivor of some unspecified calamity that causes every other human being to disappear. After wandering for months or years and making do with what humanity has left behind, he encounters Kirsi (
Elena Radonicich
Elena Radonicich (born February 5, 1985 in Moncalieri, Piedmont) is an Italian actress.
Early life and career
Born in Moncalieri to an Italian father of Slavic-German origins and an Italian mother, she graduated in 2009 at the Centro Sperimenta ...
) and the two form a romantic relationship but Armin reproduces all the same pettiness that he had before humanity's disappearance.
Cast
* as Armin
*
Elena Radonicich
Elena Radonicich (born February 5, 1985 in Moncalieri, Piedmont) is an Italian actress.
Early life and career
Born in Moncalieri to an Italian father of Slavic-German origins and an Italian mother, she graduated in 2009 at the Centro Sperimenta ...
as Kirsi
* as Father
* as Grandmother
*
Emma Bading
Emma Bading (born March 12, 1998) is a German actress. She was nominated for an International Emmy Award for Best Performance by an Actress for her role in the TV film '.
Filmography
* 2013: '
* 2014: '' Weiter als der Ozean'' (TV movie)
* sin ...
as Rosa
* Katharina Linder as Lilo
* as Editor
Reception
Writing for ''
The A.V. Club
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'',
Mike D'Angelo
Mike D'Angelo (born April 9, 1968) is an American film critic. He has written reviews for ''The A.V. Club'', ''Las Vegas Weekly'' and ''Nerve'', and maintains a personal website, The Man Who Viewed Too Much. He lives near Los Angeles.
One of th ...
gave the film an A−, saying of the character study, "this droll yet poignant amalgam of the fantastic and the mundane ultimately suggests that while people can dramatically alter their behavior in response to extreme circumstances, on some fundamental level they don’t really change".
See also
* ''
Bokeh
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The Wall
''The Wall'' is the eleventh studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released on 30 November 1979 by Harvest/EMI and Columbia/CBS Records. It is a rock opera that explores Pink, a jaded rock star whose eventual self-imp ...
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References
External links
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Page from Pandora Film*
Cineuropa
2018 films
2018 drama films
German drama films
2010s German-language films
2010s German films
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