The Keeping Room

Name: The Keeping Room
Genre: Drama
Released: September 25, 2015
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 58
Cast: Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld, Kyle Soller, Muna Otaru, Sam Worthington

2015

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Drafthouse Films | Release Date: September 25, 2015 | R

Starring: Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld, Kyle Soller, Muna Otaru, Sam Worthington

Summary: At the end of the Civil War, Southerner Augusta (Brit Marling) encounters two renegade, drunken soldiers (Sam Worthington & Kyle Soller) who are on a mission of pillage and violence. After escaping an attempted assault, Augusta races back to the isolated farmhouse that she shares with her sister Louise (Hailee Steinfeld) and their femaleAt the end of the Civil War, Southerner Augusta (Brit Marling) encounters two renegade, drunken soldiers (Sam Worthington & Kyle Soller) who are on a mission of pillage and violence. After escaping an attempted assault, Augusta races back to the isolated farmhouse that she shares with her sister Louise (Hailee Steinfeld) and their female slave Mad (Muna Otaru). When the pair of soldiers track Augusta down intent on exacting revenge, the trio of women are forced to take up arms to fend off their assailants, finding ways to resourcefully defend their home––and themselves––as the escalating attacks become more unpredictable and relentless. [Drafthouse Films]… Expand

Director: Daniel Barber

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 95 min

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IndieWire Eric Kohn

Sep 13, 2014

Even as The Keeping Room plays with formulaic ingredients, it manages to combine them into an eloquent portrait of gender, race and the constant march of time without overstating any of its potent themes. Read full review

Molly Eichel

Oct 6, 2015

The Keeping Room looks at the brutality of humanity. Read full review

David Edelstein

Sep 26, 2015

The Keeping Room is slow and rather arty, with a chamber-music (plus harmonica and fiddle) score and cinematography that shrouds the faces in shadow. But it’s a fine piece of storytelling and earns its look and feel. Read full review

The Playlist Kevin Jagernauth

Sep 13, 2014

The Keeping Room attempts a blend of sexual curiosity, home invasion horror and elegiac drama, that doesn't quite work, but whose ambitions are nonetheless compelling. Read full review

David Rooney

Sep 13, 2014

What might have looked intriguing on paper appears to have been largely pared away in the artsy mannerisms and loaded silences of Brit director Daniel Barber’s self-consciously elliptical treatment. Read full review

Alan Zilberman

Oct 1, 2015

The Keeping Room raises difficult moral questions, yet it wallows so relentlessly in gloom that it is a challenge to care about what happens to its characters. Read full review

Barbara VanDenburgh

Oct 15, 2015

Despite its sparseness and haunting photography, the film proves to be little more than a home-invasion thriller low on thrills. Read full review

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GFactor

May 20, 2016

Pure, strong, emotional and tense. This words describe The keeping Room, one briliant movie when we can see "Girl Power" with the three AMAZING actress: Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld (really great) and Muna Otaru (the best part and suprise of the movie, excellent debut).