Dreams that turn into a nightmare in a threatening camera, it does not take more to make The Room by Christian Volckman a fantastic little film in tune with the times. Released this Thursday, on VOD, in the heart of the coronavirus epidemic wave, this claustrophobic thriller plunges a couple into the torment of an invisible threat, of a double nature, depending on whether it is inside the isolated house that he has just acquired, or the exterior of the building.
Suffice to say that the pitch resonates in a very particular way in this period of confinement / deconfinement. "It's incredible that this film comes out at the very moment when its subject speaks to us so much," concedes Olga Kurylenko who knows what she is talking about. The coronavirus, the French actress of Ukrainian descent of 40 years thinks of having caught it in Italy, just before returning to her house at the beginning of March in England where she developed the disease, then was treated, before leaving, a once cured, to confine himself with his young son to France. "In our Provencal country house, far from everything," she says.
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An isolated house, like the one in the film, a hidden room of which has the particularity for those who enter it to have their wishes fulfilled.
The couple, a little broke, will first dream of a new luxury life, before asking for the impossible ... which risks being fatal to them. "This film is a metaphor for what we are going through, a reflection on opulence, when satisfying all your desires, paradoxically, does not make you happier but ends up causing the loss of yourself" , says Olga Kurylenko.
Formally, this house and the subjective visions it provokes are soon reminiscent of Shining . "Christian Volckman, the director, of course told us about Kubrick, but he also made reference to the films of Tarkovski", underlines Olga Kurylenko, former James Bond Girl who shot at Terrence Malick and who therefore knows what forces spiritual can happen on the screen.
At 40, the ex-model who has become an actress has more than 30 films to his credit and first-rate partners: Daniel Craig, Ben Affleck, Tom Cruise, Pierce Brosnan, Vincent Cassel, Lambert Wilson or Romain Duris… "C ' is a beautiful gift that you make me to remember all the actors that I met. Is there one, in particular, with whom she could have considered being confined? His answer is unequivocal: “They are all extraordinary people, but from there to spend my days in confinement with them, I don't think… We would be too close. I prefer to have them as simple friends. "
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