| Room in Rome Habitación en Roma |
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| Directed by | Julio Medem |
| Produced by | Julio Medem Alvaro Longoria |
| Written by | Julio Medem |
| Starring | Elena Anaya Natasha Yarovenko Enrico Lo Verso Najwa Nimri |
| Release date(s) | April 10, 2010 |
| Running time | 109 minutes |
| Country | Spain |
| Language | English |
Room in Rome (Spanish: Habitación en Roma) is a 2010 Spanish romance film, featuring relations of two young women (Alba and Natasha) in a hotel room in Rome. The plot is loosely based on another film, En la cama (In Bed).[1] Room in Rome became Julio Medem’s first English language film.[1]
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Alba (Elena Anaya) seduces a stranger (Natasha, played by Natasha Yarovenko) at a club (the details of how they met are left vague). Alba invited Natasha to her hotel room in what seems merely a harmless sexual adventure crowning their last night in Rome. Natasha is at first reluctant - she insists she is not a lesbian - that she likes men. Alba says that many who experience lesbian relationships never go back to men. It is clear that Alba has done this before.
However, through stories, memories and interaction with artworks in the room, the two connect tremendously, descending more and more into perilous depths of truth, trust, and ultimately love. The lovers eventually agree to part ways, returning to their previous lives in Russia and Spain. However, in this regard the ending of the film is ambiguous.
The satellite image of the flags is fake, the image is photoshopped from the location , Via del Corso, Rome. The place where the hotel in the movie is located is an empty square, the same square that is used in the opening and closing shots of the film.[2]
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