Room in Rome

This movie about two young women, who share a passionate relationship, over the course of an evening, is a well made movie. It doesn't hurt that they are attractive, considering they spend much of the time sans clothes, and often, in passionate embraces. Although some of the scenes are dark (it perhaps was the settings on my set), there are sequences where they are clearly visible enough to tell they are physically beautiful. Both Ms. Anaya and Ms. Yarovenko exhibit their passion for each other beautifully. It is surprising their accented English is easy to understand, considering it's probably not their first language. Although the dialogue (such as it is) is often subtitled, most viewers won't be focusing on it (ahem),but overall, it's a nice film.

One of my favorites :)

I confess I've always wanted to be able to write the story of a relationship in compressed form and Room In Rome accomplishes this brilliantly. In summary it's simple: two women meet in a bar before the movie commences and we see them embark on what should be a simple sexual encounter. But then... half-truths, lies, full truths, sharing of painful past experiences, sharing present joys, the fear of developing love... it's all caught delicately. Every time we think the movie is going in one direction, there's a change of pace, tone and intention.It would be very easy for a film like this to be pretentious but the light direction and sure-footed acting saves the day every time this risk appears to be drawing close. The two women fall in love, almost against their will, and so the morning comes to symbolize both rebirth and also the approaching of the pain of separation. Dawn is Alba's moment, and Dasha promises "I'll stay with you till the dawn, and then we'll say goodbye."It's really difficult to manage the intensity of such a scenario, and the longing it involves, but the script and the cast succeed. When the Russian girl Dasha steps away from Alba we really do feel the pain of the moment. Perhaps the only two unrealistic components are (i) the empathy and sympathy each woman has for the other - in real life one or both would tend to cut away to avoid pain; and (ii) the silly "arrow in the heart" moment that visually depicts the heart-pain Abla feels.Oh, and as the other reviewer has noted, after about the first two minutes we simply stop noticing the nudity of the actresses - the facial expressions, the movements of the hands, are all much more engrossing. The moments of sexual activity are more tender and touching than erotic, culminating in the moment they hug each other in the bath just before Dasha departs forever. It's in no way sexually arousing but it is absolutely arousing of tenderness, love, and the pain of loss-about-to-happen. How many of us have known that moment when the beloved is still present but we know, absolutely know, they are about to leave and never come back? This is what the bath scene captures so brilliantly: lost possibility, lost love, a sacrifice to the quotidian. At the end of the movie the two women leave the room together, to go their separate ways. An entire relationship encapsulated in a single night.But... at the end the movie cheats. After the women part, Dasha runs to Alba. The obligatory happy ending... without this last moment of capitulation to audience expectations the movie would have earned a five-star review. And the music is great!UPDATE - since writing the original review I've re-watched this movie from time to time and each time it seems to become more poignant. Yes, some of the acting is a bit clunky for a few seconds here and there but overall there's something profoundly touching about the way in which even during the moments of greatest tenderness, greatest excitement of new love, the echo of imminent loss permeates everything. Perhaps I've reached the age where, no longer believing in love, it's come to matter more and more.

I've just put this in my greatest top #10 movie list of all times.A breath of fresh air from all the other movies of this type. I lent my dvd to a friend to watch. He liked the movie but didn't like the ending at all. He believes the girls ended up together & lived happily ever after - unrealistic.Strange, because I don't think that's the case at all. So I guess the endings a bit of a cliffhanger.Either way, it's worth watching ...

was not as good as it could have been, but very good story line , but would to see more on this subject, tho,

Loved the characters and enjoyed a very good storyline. I wasn't expecting that. I do believe they fell in love and want to see each other again. You could interpret the ending in two ways.Two beautiful women learning about each other and as they become more vulnerable they grow closer. The movie is well done and I highly recommend it.

Excellent product and service. This is a highly intense one night sexual. Assault on the senses and really grabs you from the first moment and doesn't let go of you're attention for one second.this is a film that really brings out the best of a straight woman having her first lesbians experience with a partner who is so intense and really sensual. Elena Anaya and Natasha yarovenko. Are both brilliant and dazzling in this intensely romantic and sexual movie. The director Julio me demand really has produced a classic that will last for a very long time. This is a film that people generations from now will be able to watch and love. Highly recommended.

It's a love story that takes place is one night in Rome. And it keeps you wondering wether or not this is something lasting, or a one night encounter. It's a 2 person film for the most part, and the actresses do work well together.

Sebbene la custodia presenti un piccolo difetto, il DVD è praticamente nuovo, funzionante e non risente di particolari graffi o scalfitture; per un usato a 6,00 € e poco più (spedizione inclusa) non mi posso proprio lamentare.Ma parliamo del film... me ne innamorai subito qualche anno fa, vedendolo in streaming. Inizialmente attratto da uno strano duo saffico protagonista della pellicola, alla fine l'ho apprezzato sopratutto per il suo lato artistico-registico e non solo per l'estrema sensualità delle protagoniste.Room in Rome è un film che piace a pochi. Se vi dicessi che parla di due ragazze che, per tutta la notte, si incontrano, sessualmente e non solo, sino al mattino e non ci si smuove praticamente mai al di fuori di una stanza d'albergo, lo guardereste? Proprio così. E' un film che non deve piacere per la trama, ma per puro amore del cinema e degli esperimenti estetici davanti e dietro la cinepresa. Una colonna sonora passionale, quasi commovente e una Roma solo accennata, ma molto onirica e felliniana fanno da sfondo a un'avventura amorosa; un intrecciarsi di sentimenti che arrivano fino all'anima. Alla fine della pellicola ci si accorge di essere entrati nella mente delle protagoniste molto più a fondo di quanto si desiderasse. Il regista "accontenta" subito le nostre curiosità voyeuristiche, mostrandoci la perfezione dei corpi nudi e statuari delle due ragazze; ma la vera esplorazione avviene in seguito: un viaggio indimenticabile tra passato, timori e desideri più reconditi della natura umana. Una notte che cambierà per sempre la vita di due sconosciute.

Dans des tons chauds, entre la pénombre et l'orangé, une belle histoire d'amour, dans une nudité qu'on oublie.Dommage qu'irrémédiablement, le réalisateur veuille y faire intervenir la gente masculine.

Beaucoup de créativité de la part du réalisateur..Rencontre fortuite entre deux femmes qui doivent passer la nuit pour poursuivre leur voyage le lendemain.Cela rappelle un peu la chanson « Une belle histoire » de Michel Fugain :« C'est un beau roman, c'est une belle histoire. … …Il rentrait chez lui, là-haut vers le brouillardElle descendait dans le midi, le midiIls se sont trouvés au bord du chemin … … »Elles sont différentes, mais on assiste au partage de leur vécu respectif, à la communion de leur être. Elles vivent en une nuit tous les sentiments, les émotions, les déchirements et les réconciliations qu’un couple peut vivre au cours d’une vie.Très beau film à ne pas manquer.

O es un error del disco que han enviado o no me lo explico porque incluso la caratula dice que viene con castellano pero al reproducir este bluray britanico no existe tal audio ni subtitulos en nuestro idioma, quiza sea un error de distribucion.

I was a huge fan of Medem's small but exquisite oeuvre already, but Room in Rome easily made it into the top five of my all-time favourite films (where it competes with Medem's  Sex And Lucia [2002] [DVD ]). What, you may ask, makes it so special?First the set-up - a one-night encounter in a hotel room, which the camera never leaves except to peep out onto the balcony or through the entrance of the room into the corridor. This would work brilliantly in a very small theatre as well. The basic idea is borrowed from a Chilean movie (En la cama) with a couple of very important tweaks. Medem turned the man of the first movie into a woman, and he moved the room to Rome, and embedded it in Italian art history. There are paintings on every wall and even on the ceilings, which play an important part in the movie.Alternatively, to relate it to a better known movie, one could call it an all-female "Before sunrise" set indoors and in a different city. In one rollercoaster night the protagonists get to know each other and learn to trust and love each other.So in that room, we have two women, not too many clothes, lots of art, and modern IT equipment enabling them to show each other their outside lives via Google Earth. Oh, and a splendid view from the balcony over the roofs of Rome. (One could have called it Room with a view, had the title not been taken by some other movie.)Let's get the clothes issue out of the way first, as it seems to have scared UK distributors to an extent that they didn't give the film a chance in the cinemas. Yes, both women are undressed for most of the length of the movie, but after about two minutes that appears completely normal and one stops noticing it. In a sense, considering their respective vulnerabilities and difficult path towards mutual trust and truthfulness, one could argue that most of their nakedness is psychological rather than physical. Seen this way, the cosy white bath robes they put on for breakfast in the end seem to represent the comfort and protection of a trusting (if time-limited) relationship.More interestingly, the art, chosen by Medem's wife and art director Montse Sanz, tells us something not only about the story and its possible interpretations, it also offers insights into Medem's philosophy when Natasha cites the Renaissance artist Leon Battista Alberti, seen in one of the paintings, as saying: "The artist must know at all times what he is representing."I would argue that the film contains more classical art than we see on the walls. Many of the poses of the women remind me of paintings - most of them reclining nudes, obviously. Towards the end, Medem acknowledges artworks as a source of inspiration explicitly when he makes Natasha copy the pose of the Venus of Milo, which is present in the room as a small scale model. Come to think of it, with all the gorgeous lighting and colours, many of the frames would make nice paintings.Ironically, the state of the art IT equipment including a smartphone and a laptop running Google Earth (or the Microsoft equivalent) almost seamlessly becomes as important as the Renaissance paintings, as it's the only connection to the previous and outside life of the protagonists. Talking of technology, I also love the fact that Alba turns out to be an engineer who came to Rome to plug an invention she made. While she failed to score a contract on this occasion, her business seems to be going ok, judging by the quality of the hotel room she booked. And as Natasha is an art historian, the story could be read as a "two cultures" dialogue as well.The five languages - some of the most touching moments involve each character speaking their native language (Spanish / Russian), assuming the other won't understand. But the English dialogue, with just enough of an accent to identify the origin of each character worked surprisingly well for me (I do like my Spanish films and am not necessarily happy if people switch to English). It's sad and ironic, however, that Medem's first film to feature dialogue mostly in English wasn't actually shown in UK or US cinemas. We also get some Italian (via the singing room service waiter) and some Basque via a video, reminding us of Medem's cultural background (I understand that, genetically, he is as much German as Basque, namely 1/4 each).The music of Spanish (but English singing) singer-songwriter Lourdes Hernandes, aka Russian Red (a pseudonym she borrowed from her favourite lipstick, apparently) is perfect for the movie, not only because her accent matches Alba's.So in summary, buy the DVD, you can't borrow mine, as I need to watch the movie another five times. Sex And Lucia [2002] [DVD