Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now! 2008 / La habitación de Fermat / Spain 2007
Math and mystery add up to an engrossing solution in Fermat’s Room, a locked-room teaser that handles its limited dramatic permutations with flair, skill and a nicely contempo air. Featuring four scientists struggling for survival in a shrinking space, skillfully turned plot develops with some satisfying twists of logic.
Math and mystery add up to an unlikely but engrossing solution in Fermat’s Room. Featuring four scientists struggling for survival in a shrinking space, skillfully turned plot develops with the same satisfying twists of logic its protags have to employ if they are to avoid a grisly fate. Young, sexy superbrain Galois (Alejo Sauras) is invited by the mysterious Fermat (Federico Luppi) to attend a gathering of math experts. Accompanying him are jovial, middle-aged Hilbert (Lluís Homar), depressive drinker Pascual (Santi Millán) and hard-nosed, attractive Oliva (Elena Ballesteros). In a remote old warehouse, the group is greeted by the elderly Fermat, who then gets a phone summons to hospital. PDA messages start arriving, with logic puzzles that have to be solved within one minute; after that, the walls of the room start closing in, courtesy of four hydraulic presses rigged outside.
88 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Luis Piedrahita, Rodrigo Sopeña
/ Screenplay Luis Piedrahita, Rodrigo Sopeña
/ Dir. of Photography Miguel Amoedo
/ Music Federico Jusid
/ Editor Jorge Macaya
/ Producer Adolfo Blanco, José María Irisarri, César Benítez
/ Production Notro Films S.L.
/ Cast Santi Millán, Alejo Sauras, Elena Ballesteros, Lluís Homar, Federico Luppi
/ Contact Notro Films S.L.
Notro Films S.L.
Via Augusta 110, 080 06, Barcelona
Spain
Phone: +34 93 567 05 05
Fax: +34 93 567 05 04
Rodrigo Sopeña
Film Director, Film Director
Luis Piedrahita
Film Director, Film Director
Manuel Llamas
Film Institution Rep.
Claudi Niubo
Festival Consultant
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