One night in Rome

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Movie
German title One night in Rome
Original title Habitación en Roma
Country of production Spain
original language English
Publishing year 2010
length 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Julio Médem
script Katherine Fugate ,
Julio Médem
production Alvaro Longoria ,
Pilar Benito ,
David Mataus ,
Klara Beverly ,
Julio Médem,
Cristina Zumarraga
music Jocelyn Pook
camera Álex Catalán
cut Julio Médem
occupation

A night in Rome (original title: Habitación en Roma , also known under the international title Room in Rome ) is a Spanish love story directed by Julio Médem in 2010 , for which he also wrote the screenplay. The film is a free adaptation of the Chilean feature film In Bed - En la Cama by Matías Bize from 2005.

action

Midsummer night in Rome: the young Russian Natasha, who is about to get married, and the attractive Spaniard Alba get to know each other in a bar. It's their last night in Rome for both of them. After initial hesitation, Natasha is persuaded by Alba to accompany her to her hotel room. This is a confusing situation for the heterosexual Natasha as she and the lesbian Alba get closer, undress and exchange tenderness. After Alba falls asleep, Natasha secretly sneaks out of the room, but comes back later after realizing she forgot her cell phone.

She succumbs to Alba's fascination and has sex with her. Then they tell each other stories from their lives, which are inspired and influenced by the paintings in the hotel room and whose truthfulness initially remains their secret. These conversations are repeatedly interrupted by passionate sex. Finally the two women open up to each other. Natasha is really called Dasha. That evening she quarreled with her twin sister Sasha, who she initially claims to be with Alba, because she revealed that the man Dasha is going to marry in a week's time had previously had a relationship with Sasha until she was him has left. Dasha feels insecure because she seems to be only second choice, as in her childhood. Alba is an engineer who invented an environmentally friendly city mobile. She is very proud of her work, but the day she met Dasha, she learned that her invention will never be built. She has been in a relationship with a woman, Edurne, for two years, but the accidental death of Edurne's son while he was in Alba's care a year ago weighs heavily on her. Dasha and Alba comfort each other. Neither of them feel good about cheating on their partners, yet they need tonight's love for their pain.

The next morning they share breakfast together. If they had assured each other on the last evening that none of that night would leave the room, they are now seriously considering leaving their partners and staying in Rome together. Both assure themselves that they have never loved as much as they did that night, and yet Dasha wants to continue her previous life and also convinces Alba that this is better for all of them. With grief over their imminent separation, Alba is near a fit of weakness and sinks to the floor. In a surreal scene, Dasha Alba pulls Cupid's arrow, which hit her deep in the heart from the ceiling painting, out of her chest while the bathtub in which Alba lies fills with her blood. They have one last bath together in the bathtub. The two women want to leave their love behind in the tub forever, after which they dress each other. At the end of the film, Alba and Dasha leave the hotel with her luggage. The last camera shot shows both of them leaving the hotel and moving away from each other in opposite directions. At the last moment, Dasha can be seen running back in the direction of Alba, before the camera moves vertically upwards to the height of the satellite image. As a reminder of that night, the two of them had hung the bed sheet on an empty flagpole in front of Alba's room, which can now be seen on the satellite image.

criticism

"An erotic chamber play that poorly disguises its wafer-thin story with reflections on desirability, closeness and fear of commitment, while his primary aim is to put beautiful women in the light through sophisticated photography."

- film service

“Erotic drama about the power of chance, love and identity. [..] "Room in Rome" is sometimes pretentious in its symbolism, but is played sensitively, unrestrained and disarmingly romantic. "

- Cinema

Trivia

  • The shooting took place between January 26th and February 27th 2009 in Madrid and Rome .
  • The original language is English. Russian, Italian, Spanish and Basque sentences are also spoken in the film.
  • The satellite images that are repeatedly shown in the film with the help of " Bing Maps ", such as those of the hotel with the flags, are partly fictitious. At the location of the hotel on Via dei Coronari in Rome with the coordinates 41 ° 54 ′ 2 ″  N , 12 ° 28 ′ 15 ″  E, there is actually an empty square called Piazzetta di San Simeone , the filming location for the start and finish Was the final scene of the film.
  • The film is dedicated to Polo Aledo, who was responsible for the sound in all Médems films and who died in 2009 after completing One Night in Rome .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for One Night in Rome . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2011 (PDF; test number: 125 934 V).
  2. ↑ Filmdienst.de: Room in Rome , accessed on January 5, 2020
  3. ↑ Cinema.de: One Night in Rome , accessed on January 5, 2020
  4. ↑ Alfonso Rivera, Interview with Julio Médem on cineuropa.org , March 22, 2010 (accessed April 6, 2013).