In My Room is a 2018 German drama film directed by Ulrich Köhler. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.
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Plot
Hans Löw plays Armin, whose professional and personal lives are dysfunctional. While visiting his aged relatives, his grandmother near death, he wakes up to find that every other human has apparently disappeared, and with no explanation. Armin grieves, time passes and when we come upon him next, he is settled into his ideal comfortable life, just outside the town where he grew up. Kirsi (Elena Radonicich), a lithesome footloose woman arrives. They enter a partnership, a compromise that makes Armin happier than Kirsi. They foresee different futures and that becomes clear to Kirsi. She decides to leave without Armin, at least for now.
Cast
Hans Löw as Armin
Elena Radonicich as Kirsi
Michael Wittenborn as Father
Ruth Bickelhaupt as Grandmother
Emma Bading as Rosa
Katharina Linder as Lilo
Felix Knopp 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".