Getting lost, then finding oneself in a mysterious 'Room'
by Chris Garcia

Julia Barker needs to escape, and so she does, fleeing her dull, weathered life in search of something unspoken and abstract, something that in dramatic bolts appears to be a cavernous old warehouse, bare, dungy yet bathed in an ethereal guiding light spraying from a grid of industrial windows. What is this place? The woman, clenched in midlife despair, spends much of Kyle Henry's transfixing and supremely confident debut feature, "Room," on a quest to locate the warehouse. Read the full review

TO SUM UP
A working-class wife and mother, Julia Barker has begun having psychic visions of a room — stark, vacuous and industrial. After waking up from a minor car accident, Julia follows her vision to New York City. She knows that she must find the room.

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'Room'

Director: Kyle Henry
Starring: Cyndi Williams, Ken Bradley, Alexandra Kiester, Jacqui Cross, Gretchen Krich, Hannah Nicholas
Run time: 83 minutes
Release date: Jan. 21, 2005
Rating: Not rated.

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Austin American-Statesman: 3 of 5 stars
"... more meditation than entertainment, yet its sure-footed sobriety is powerfully hypnotic."


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