In the room (2015)
by Eric Khoo
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FESTIVALS
BFI London Film Festival 2015 | Official Selection
Toronto International Film Festival 2015 | Official Selection
Busan International Film Festival 2015 | Official Selection
San Sebastian International Film Festival 2015 | Official Selection
Singapore International Film Festival 2015 | Official Selection
Osaka Asian Film Festival 2016 | Official Selection
Takasaki Film Festival 2017 | Official Selection
Genre: Drama | Running Time: 105min | Languages: English, Cantonese, Thai, Japanese, Korean, Malay | Countries: Singapore, Hong Kong
IN THE ROOM deals with love, life and lust.
Eric Khoo’s latest film is a tapestry of stories, all of which unfold in a hotel room over several decades. The common thread is sex.
That hotel room is Room 27 at the Singapura Hotel, which started out as a ritzy establishment in the 1940s but has, over the decades, lost its sheen of respectability. In that time, Room 27 has felt and experienced – through the individuals who have passed through its doors and made love on its bed – all facets of the human condition: joy, love, fear, compassion, cruelty, depravity and redemption.
It has witnessed beginnings and endings, and everything in between.
For some, Room 27 is a nameless numbered room, a place which provides a cloak of anonymity, where one could indulge in indiscretions and the forbidden, where their trespasses will be forgiven once they return the key and sign the bill.
Release Dates: 15 September 2015 (TIFF) | 25 February 2016 (Singapore)