In My Room

Name: In My Room
Genre: Drama
Released: 2020-09-06
Rating: 5.8

Drama20m

🍅80%

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80%

Tomatometer

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33%

Popcornmeter

5.8

TMDB

Storyline

Made during confinement, "In My Room" plunges us into the poignant story of a woman at the twilight of her life, through recordings of the director's deceased grandmother. Living rooms become stages where life is performed. Windows become portals to the lives of others.

Details

DirectorMati Diop

ReleasedSep 6, 2020

StatusReleased

Reviews

7 reviews · 6 critics

5 fresh · 1 rotten

Simon Abrams

RTRogerEbert.comOct 11, 2019

One of the main pleasures of watching In My Room comes from feeling your way around, enjoying the ambient sound design, and making your own thematic connections.

Jeannette Catsoulis

RTNew York TimesOct 10, 2019

"In My Room" is a movie about emptiness, yet it clamors with ideas.

Mike D'Angelo

RTAV ClubOct 9, 2019

[T]his droll yet poignant amalgam of the fantastic and the mundane ultimately suggests that while people can dramatically alter their behavior in response to extreme circumstances, on some fundamental level they don't really change.

Vadim Rizov

RTFilmmaker MagazineJan 4, 2023

In My Room is playful and fun (which I can’t say of the other two films by Köhler I’ve seen, the purposefully-but-still drab Bungalow and Sleeping Sickness), full of surprise song cues...