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Deadroom (2005)
Ingenious and thought-provoking
I saw this film play at the South By Southwest Film Festival in Austin, TX in March 05, and fell in love with it. The concept is ingenious in its simplicity -- 2 people, together in a room, talk about the emotionally charged event that connects them. The only rub is that one of the two is dead.
There are four separate sets of two characters, each divided by a table (as if in an interrogation room). Each set of characters has a very different story, and the four stories are inter-cut with each other, so that it takes the span of the movie for the viewer to understand and get to the bottom of what the mystery/emotional struggle is between the two characters. Each story was made by a different indie filmmaker, but they work together as a seamless whole, even though the stories have no direct interaction on each other. This isn't a film about action, but about heart, and discovery. Find it if you can!