Keeping Room
Lean and accomplished...the film's frustrating, fascinating, at times too eager to shock. But it's also daring and eccentric.
The Keeping Room
In this radically re-imagined American Western set towards the end of the Civil War, Southerner Augusta encounters two renegade, drunken soldiers 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 and their female slave Mad. 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.
Genre
Drama
Runtime
94
Language
English
Director
Daniel Barber
Cast
Brit Marling,
Hailee Steinfeld,
Muna Otaru,
Sam Worthington
FEATURED REVIEW
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture
The Keeping Room is yet another powerful, post-apocalyptic survivalist drama about man’s inhumanity to man — in this case, woman. The difference is that it’s set in the past and is more or less historically accurate. The place is Georgia, the apocalypse the Civil War; more specifically, the war’s ...
Played at
Playhouse 7 10.02.15 - 10.08.15
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