The Keeping Room (2015)
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Critic Consensus: Aided by its spare setting and committed performances, The Keeping Room is just fascinatingly off-kilter enough to overcome its frustrating stumbles.
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as Augusta
as Louise
as Mad
as Caleb
as Moses
as Moll
as Henry
as Bill
as Alma
as Prudence
as Carriage Driver
as Mary
as Battle
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Writer Julia Hart and director Daniel Barber develop the women's relationships at a careful, steady pace, giving them time to bond; this is essential since they must learn to trust and respect each other to survive.
Dark, brooding and brutal, "The Keeping Room" features finely carved performances in a Civil War period piece that might as well be post-apocalyptic.
While the gender-based farmhouse siege is suspenseful and bloody, director Daniel Barber weighs in too heavily with extended silences that slow down the goings-on of a film that has darkly lit tension, lovely scenery and fiercely presented ideas ...
The landscape is appropriately lush, the brutality is deftly rendered, and if the action is minimal, that may be because it isn't quite the point.
The scattershot story doesn't fully serve this stellar cast, as the drama often flags. But when it connects, the tension is almost unbearable.
Despite its sparseness and haunting photography, the film proves to be little more than a home-invasion thriller low on thrills.
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The Keeping Room Quotes
| Augusta: | Why do you come like you want a war? |
| Augusta: | This is our home. We'll have to fight. |
| Augusta: | What if it's the end of the room and we are the last ones left? |
| Augusta: | What if it's the end of the world and we are the last ones left? |