In the room (2015)

by Eric Khoo

Scroll

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)

Previous
Previous

Sandcastle (2010) | Feature

Next
Next

Buffalo Boys (2018) | Feature