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You wouldn't see Hollywood actresses doing that, and yet in Hollywood any nudity that could get through contract clauses and censors would be thrown in for nudity sake and there wouldn't be anything close to a natural feeling about it. It's now the time to mention just how stunning both actresses are in the film and how they cope being naked for almost the entire film and seeming so relaxed with that. Yarovenko doesn't seem to be totally comfortable at the start of the film, which suits her character's position, and come the second half she's much more relaxed and stronger in her role. The two actresses do a good job, although I think that for the most part Elena Anaya as Alba gives the strongest performance, and to be fair to Natasha Yarovenko who plays Natasha, Alba is the character who has more range of emotion. I loved this parry back and forth between the characters as Natasha's defences are slowly broken down and allow her to fully reveal herself to Alba. I loved the stage play feel of the film with scenes of dialogue that draw the characters towards each other, revealing something new about each of them, breaking through the bravado and lies of their initial stories, and either ending in a very intimate moment, a misplaced line that distances them, or an emotional outpouring from one of the women.īetween each of these scenes the camera and the soundtrack take us through to the next, moving the characters together again or pulling them apart after the previous scene brought them closer or distanced them. I was amazed how well I connected with the story, relating it to some of my own experiences in life, but then it goes to show how well the film was written. Room in Rome is superbly scripted, Julio Medem has done a great job with both the writing and the directing, and I'm surprised that it's a man who wrote this script. There is a very real sense of a burgeoning relationship, something on a cusp between the two that could turn at any moment, and it does at a number of points in the film. It's not about these moments though, although they do add to the development of the characters and their relationship, it's the latter two aspects of the film that are the focus, the characters and how their relationship grows through the night. They helped punctuate the relationship between the two characters and pull them closer, and they felt incredibly tender, a phrase that does well to describe how these scenes were shot. With Room in Rome I was surprised how beautiful and natural the nudity and sex felt. Sure there's an erotic element to it, but it never has a feeling of it being rude or dirty, you know what I mean when you think about many of the sex scenes in Hollywood films.
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There are only a few scenes where sex is the focus, but I have to say it's all filmed and portrayed rather beautifully. It's perhaps here that I should point out just how much the film is about the sexual relationship between the two women, something that from watching the trailers and reading the blurb you might be expecting. Although they are confined to the room there's an interesting use of the laptop computer to expand the story and develop the conversations that are really the staple of the film. The characters don't just move around it but they interact with the pictures and the décor.
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There are some wonderfully composed shots with warm and intimate lighting that set a fantastic mood.Īnother strong aspect of the film is how the hotel room plays such an important role in the film. There are some really strong shots throughout and despite the location being confined to the hotel room the camera is still always moving and bringing out some new detail of the room. The shot, which gives a great feel to the film from the beginning, sets the tone from here on out. When they enter the hotel the camera tracks back, surveys the room, and meets them as they walk into the room.
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At the beginning we see the two ladies arrive outside the hotel and the camera carries out a seemingly impossible tracking shot which ends up leaning over the balcony and watching them from above. The first thing you notice about the film is that the camera does not leave the hotel room. The night they spend together is peppered with moments of seduction but is mainly about the two girls edging through their brash exteriors and getting to know each other while exploring the lavish hotel room, all the time waiting for dawn to return them to their lives. They walk back to Alba's hotel and after a little bit of back and forth, Natasha concedes to going to her hotel room for a nightcap and it's there that Alba begins her seduction of Natasha, however Natasha hasn't been with a woman before and the attraction is something that is very new to her. Two ladies have met in the beautiful city of Rome and there's an obvious attraction.