Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

sol1218 ***SPOILERS*** Suffering from severe migraine headaches and feeling that the world is closing in on her middle-age Huston Texas housewife Julia Baker, Cyndi Williams,feels she needs a change in life and finally does it. Leaves her troubled and deeply in debt life behind together with her husband and two children. Leaving on a trip of what she hopes to be discovery and back to sanity Julia feels that it would lead her to better days ahead and turn her miserable life around. With her embezzling the weekly take at the bingo parlor that she worked at Julia then takes the first plane out to New York City in order to get away from it all: The "Big Apple" New York CityAlone and without a place to stay in the big city,rents in NYC were a lot higher then Cyndi expected, during the Christmas holiday season Cyndi roams the streets of New York until she runs into a friend of her from back in Huston, what a small world, Suzy who now calls herself Alex, Gretchen Krich. Alex gives her the name of a real-estate agent friend of her Athina, Suzanne Savoy, who can get her an apartment at a cut rate price. As things turned even cut-rate prices weren't all that affordable for Julia here in NYC who's embezzled cash was quickly running out on her. Before that she meets in a bar in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn Big Tex, Shanon Weaver, who in him after taken a couple dozen belts of Jack Daniels on the rocks and being almost blind drunk is not turned off by the middle aged and somewhat overweight Julia. Tex after making some friendly conversation with her takes Julia to his pad at the Saint George Hotel in Brooklyn Heights to be bedded down,by him, for the night. The next day with the booze wearing off him Tex realized his mistake as both he and Julia quietly parted ways.***SPOILERS*** Still homeless at the end of the movie, which ends abruptly, we see Julia aimlessly roaming the streets of New York looking for this mythical room that's she's been hallucinating about all during the movie. As she then ends up in this sleazy go-go joint alone lost and confused and hoping that she'll finally find herself before the men with the white suites do.P.S Loneliness, which she tried to escape from, followed Julia all the way to NYC. And it was there in the big cold heartless and almost friendless, with the exception of Alex, city that the truth finally hit her.

ckollerer This is not a Hollywood mega-film: no major stars, no supermodels, no fun. It is a serious independent film with real-to-life actors. It presents an offbeat story which thrusts us viewers into the tortured, schizoid mind of Julia Baker. It is a helter-skelter ride from an overstressed working mother in Texas to the shattered person she becomes, alone in her personal, confused hell in New York.She is compelled to find the large, spacious "room" she dreams of. She abandons her family to follow cryptic, hallucinated clues to find this "room". It ends with a blurred, double-visioned hallucination, which takes her (and us) looking down at something, who knows what, very close up. The blurred vision continues to look down from a perspective spinning upward into space. That alone is worth the price of the film rental. It is very unsettling to be sent on this schizophrenic journey way out of reality. But it is a masterful inside, experiential view of schizophrenia, apart from actually being schizophrenic. It is totally absorbing. Check your reality at the theater door.If, however, you have a Hollywood movie mindset and no appreciation of where writer-director, Kyle Henry brilliantly wants to take you, you're apt to think this movie is a totally plot less, bizarre, incomprehensible, incoherent trip to nowhere. And a total waste of time. And you should pass on this one.As a refresher, I include here a quote from a helpguide.com article on "What Is Schizophrenia":"Schizophrenia is a brain disorder that affects the way a person acts, thinks, and sees the world. People with schizophrenia have an altered perception of reality, often a significant loss of contact with reality. They may see or hear things that don't exist, speak in strange or confusing ways, believe that others are trying to harm them, or feel like they're being constantly watched. With such a blurred line between the real and the imaginary, schizophrenia makes it difficult—even frightening—to negotiate the activities of daily life. In response, people with schizophrenia may withdraw from the outside world or act out in confusion and fear."

Veleka Room is the most infuriating and boring movie I have seen in years. I wanted to destroy the DVD when the end credits came on. Why? As others have already stated so well, there was no ending, no conclusion, no answers or resolution of any kind to what that room was or what it meant to her.I did like seeing a very fat actress in a role instead of a pretty person. I also liked seeing her fat lover... the guy she picked up in the bar. I assumed she had sex with him because of the night her husband refused her because he had work to do. But who knows? Like everything else in this film, it was interesting to watch, but meaningless.When I began to realize I had wasted my money was in that spiraling weirdness at the end. It gave me a headache, and I had to look away. When it just went on and on and on, I had a hunch that this was the director's substitute for a decent ending.All in all, watching this film was like having pretty-good sexual foreplay and then having your lover just leave you. I will never watch anything by that director again. He copped out, he cheated us, and I hope he turns to something like gardening where what he does won't infuriate millions of viewers like Room did.

VictorDePasqual **Possible Spoilers** I saw this in Austin two days ago, and I honestly have to say it was a waste of time. I'm not one to only like one genre, or not be able to open my mind to abstract vision, but this film has no answers to any questions brought up during the course of the razor thin narrative. The director assured us the film should be interpreted by the viewer, but how can one do this if there is little or nothing to interpret? Cyndi Williams certainly delivers a powerful performance, but it's hard to say for what. The story, very, very thin story, is about Williams' middle-aged housewife who suffers visions with her migraines and one day crashes her car which pushes her to fly out to NYC for no reason except to find the non-descript warehouse/loft room she sees in her migraine episodes.The camera work is amateur and not worth noting. The music is well done, as is the sound design, bu to what purpose is still a mystery to me. I usually feel when a filmmaker does not give ANY concrete answers or motivations for character development or actions it is a cop out. This is no different. You walk away not feeling one bit of satisfaction for anything. You just keep wondering why you just wasted 100 minutes watching NOTHING happen and nothing resolve itself. Watch out.