Oscar alert? ROOM movie is causing a stir among critics and making stars of Brie Larson and five-year-old Jacob Tremblay.
Every year, one movie at TIFF gets surrounded by extreme buzz and chatter about award nods. This year, one of those movies is Room, with outstanding performances by its stars Brie Larson and a young five year old whose performances are being surrounded by serious Oscar buzz.
Based on Irish author Emma Donoghue’s 2010 novel “Room,” which became a literary phenomenon, the film tells the story of mother and son who, after escaping from captivity in which they have been held for half a decade, struggle to adjust to the strange, terrifying and wondrous world outside their one-room prison.
Earlier this year at the Telluride Film Festival, Larson and director Lenny Abrahamson talked about the movie and why it’s appealing to so many. For Abrahamson the key was Tremblay. He told Variety, that one of the hardest thing to do is to get a child performer to behave naturally on camera, but Tremblay went beyond that: “This is an actor’s performance that demands great subtlety of emotion,” he said revealing that the film rests on the actor’s shoulders. Tremblay responded gravely, “I’ve worked with lots of directors (pause for laughs) — and he’s a really good one.”
Added Larson, “It’s a movie that deals a lot with expectations — and expectations that can never be met.”
The cast also includes Academy Award nominees William H. Macy and Joan Allen.
-by Toni-Marie Ippolito
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