#Room in rome scenes movie
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#Room in rome scenes code

A dress code is required to enter places of worship and selected museums.Confirmation will be received at time of booking.Sex may or may not be able to sell itself, but after 30 or 40 minutes, it canвЂ™t do much for this relationship. As beautiful as Anaya and Yarovenko are, lounging around the hotel mostly undressed, some of their scenes feel like nothing more than aesthetically pleasing timekilling, and their final moments together, while bittersweet and ambiguous, donвЂ™t match the charge of, say, Richard LinklaterвЂ™s Before Sunrise and Before Sunset films they have physical attraction but not a whole lot of chemistry. In short, Room in Rome, despite that attractive simplicity, feels padded and drawn out. Further muddling the movieвЂ™s conceptual simplicity is the puzzling side character Max (Enrico Lo Verso), a porter at the hotel, who fails to justify his presence as the only other character onscreen if his point is to be pointless, Medem might just as well have left him out entirely. For characters in a talking-all-night movie, Alba and Natasha arenвЂ™t much fun to listen to at times, their dialogue, mostly in English but with some dips into Italian and Spanish, sounds poorly translated, but it may just be the universal language of earnest portentousness: вЂњIs this me? I canвЂ™t recognize myself,вЂќ one of them muses. Medem may have been counting on music to fill in for gaps in the script. HernandezвЂ™s songs add little apart from on-the-nose commentary on the action, smothering the movieвЂ™s smallness rather than complementing it.

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For such an intimate exercise, the film has an egregious overscoring problem: not just with its background score, but a series of songs by Lourdes Hernandez, one of which, вЂњLoving StrangersвЂќ, plays with a level of repetition that recalls вЂњEverybodyвЂ™s Talkin'вЂќ from Midnight Cowboy (now imagine if that song had been titled вЂњWalking HustlersвЂќ).

#Room in rome scenes movie

At its best, the movie has an affecting, empathetic way of depicting the excitement, hesitation, and awkwardness of a new relationship, especially one that crosses established lines of sexuality and may, for that and other reasons, have a fast-approaching expiration date.Д«ut while MedemвЂ™s location, lighting, and concept are as spare as the womenвЂ™s clothing, he also gussies up Room in Rome needlessly. By the time the movie reaches morning, shots of the two women caressing each other in the bathtub are jarring less from the explicitness than the bright, unshadowed whites making their first appearance in the entire film.Дuring the slow transition from shadows to sunlight, Alba and Natasha mostly talk and have sex, though they make some detours into in-room karaoke and playing with computer maps to show each other their homes.

The movie starts out shadowy, in the dead of night, bodies half-hidden in darkness, gradually revealing more of Alba and Natasha as they open up to each other. Well, Alba, being a full-fledged lesbian, seems a little more sure, while Natasha, engaged to a man, is less so. We learn that both women are in Rome on vacation they got to talking in a bar earlier evening, and now here they are in the hotel, seemingly unsure of what will happen next.

The story unfolds in a limited timeframe: We first see Alba (Elena Anaya) and Natasha (Natasha Yarovenko) as they enter AlbaвЂ™s hotel, from a shot that peers over the balcony in AlbaвЂ™s room, and the camera never leaves that room, even when the characters do. The film is a chronicle of a one-night stand between two women, though its use of nudity and sex is not quite as explicit, nor as expressive, as some of its closest recent relatives like 9 Songs and Shortbus. IвЂ™ve heard that sex sells, but if it that was all it took, Julio MedemвЂ™s Room in Rome mightвЂ™ve been afforded a theatrical release, rather than playing a few festivals before making an inauspicious DVD review (even a few months after that US disc release, it has yet to accrue enough reviews for even a Rotten Tomatoes rating).