en In My Room (film)

In My Room
In My Room
	Film poster
Directed by	Ulrich Köhler [de; fr]
Written by	Ulrich Köhler
Starring	Hans Löw [de]
Release date	17 May 2018 (Cannes);
Running time	119 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

In My Room is a 2018 German drama film directed by Ulrich Köhler [de; fr]. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]^[2]

Plot

Hans Löw plays Armin, a cameraman whose professional and personal lives are dysfunctional. He suddenly finds himself apparently the only survivor of some unspecified calamity that causes every other human being to disappear. After wandering for months or years and making do with what humanity has left behind, he encounters Kirsi (Elena Radonicich) and the two form a romantic relationship but Armin reproduces all the same pettiness that he had before humanity's disappearance.

Cast

Hans Löw [de] as Armin
Elena Radonicich as Kirsi
Michael Wittenborn [de] as Father
Ruth Bickelhaupt [de] as Grandmother
Emma Bading as Rosa
Katharina Linder as Lilo
Felix Knopp [de] as Editor

Reception

Writing for The A.V. Club, Mike D'Angelo gave the film an A−, saying of the character study, "this droll yet poignant amalgam of the fantastic and the mundane ultimately suggests that while people can dramatically alter their behavior in response to extreme circumstances, on some fundamental level they don’t really change".^[3]