The Forbidden Room

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Cast

Roy Dupuis
as Cesare

Clara Furey
as Margot

Louis Negin
as Marv/Smithy/Mars/Organizer/Mr. Lanyon

Udo Kier
as Count Yugh/The Butler/The Dead Father/Guard/Pharmacist

Gregory Hlady
as Jarvis/Dr. Deane/A Husband

Mathieu Amalric
as Thadeusz M./Ostler

Noël Burton
as Wolf/Pilot/The Captain

Geraldine Chaplin
as The Master Passion/Nursemaid/Aunt Chance

Caroline Dhavernas
as Gong

Charlotte Rampling
as The Ostler's Mother

Amira Casar
as Mrs. M.

Karine Vanasse
as Florence Labadie

Jacques Nolot
as Bent/Minister of the Interior

Paul Ahmarani
as Dr. Deng//Speedy

Slimane Dazi
as Baron Pappenheim

Maria de Medeiros
as The Blind Mother/Clotilde

Victor Andres Turgeon-Trelles
as Saplingjack 1/Listening Man/Pancho

Andreas Apergis
as Dr. Warren

Sophie Desmarais
as Dr. Warren

Ariane Labed
as Alicia Warlock/The Chambermaid

Romano Orzari
as Squid Thief/Madman/Dr. Moarte-Joc

Alexandre Bisping
as Harlan

Kent McQuaid
as Mason

Neil Napier
as Saplingjack 3/Man with Stones on His Ankles

Kyle Gatehouse
as Saplingjack 2/Man with Upturned Face

André Wilms
as Surgeon

Christophe Paou
as Ukrainian Prisoner

Adèle Haenel
as The Mute Invalid

Céline Bonnier
as Eve

Lewis Furey
as The Skull-Faced Man

Victoria Diamond
as Woman Skeleton 1

Mistaya Hemingway
as Woman Skeleton 2

Cynthia Ekoe
as Woman Skeleton 3

Sienna Mazzone
as Inner Child

Vasco Bailly-Gentaud
as The Boy

Éric Robidoux
as Xiao

Jean-François Stévenin
as The Doctor

Graham Ashmore
as Bathing Man

Darcy Fehr
as Nightclub Attendee/Climax Player

Kathia Rock
as A Mother

Luce Vigo
as Luce

Judith Baribeau
as Oracle Bones Nurse

Kim Morgan
as Kim

Marie Brassard
as Mysterious Necklace Woman

Angela LaMuse Senyshyn
as Bathing Woman 1

Kimmi Melnychuk
as Bathing Woman 2

Melissa Trainor
as Forest Nymph

Pamela Iveta
as Nightclub Attendee/Climax Player

Catherine Treskow
as A Woman in the Street

John Churchill
as Karl Le Barron

Matthew Comeau
as Scout Doctor

Alexandre Skeret
as POW Scout

Sherpa Macilu
as Nils

Miguel Eduardo Cueva
as Father's Posthumous Buddy

Arthur Holden
as Auctioneer

Marie-Sophie Roy
as Sue

Anthony Lemke
as Bud

Victoire DuBois
as Lotte

Elina Löwensohn
as Sister

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• May 07, 2016

  It works as a strange object of curiosity more than anything else - an empty exercise of style that could have been at least amusing as a short movie but remains only overdone, impenetrable and interminable as it is, and an insufferable waste of time that doesn't have anything to say.
  Carlos M Super Reviewer
• Apr 06, 2016

  I feel I should review this simply to counteract the acclaim this film has received thus far. This film is an annoying mess, and anyone who tells you otherwise is just working off of the knee-jerk pretension this type of homage invokes. Nothing happens, you get a headache, and, if you're lucky, you fall asleep. I don't understand why this has been reviewed so highly, not because of my incredulity at it being a passable film, but simply because I don't think most reviewers were physically present or of sound mind for the viewing. Take for instance: "The bad part is that at over two hours long the film is not that good." - David Lewis - Certified fresh review. "...overlong and messy" - Conor Bateman - Certified fresh review. "An exhausting and overwhelming film to experience" - Philip Concannon - Certified fresh review. "Dense and lacking... playful quality" - John Fink - Certified fresh review. Ok, I'm making a stretch, but I couldn't stand this film. What a pretentious waste of technique. It's like Silver Globe or Zardoz with less purpose and more migraine.
  

  K Nife C Super Reviewer
• Mar 08, 2016

  A fever dream withing a fever dream. This film exudes its utter passion for the creation of art, and utilizes the language of film to tell several unique stories that seem to fall deeper and deeper into each other. It is a love letter to the art of making films, and its rare to see such fierce film making that is at one point clinging to its own snowballing coherence and at another, reaching out to communicate so effortlessly, a simplistic message to its audience.
  

  Hayden B Super Reviewer
• Aug 16, 2015

  This weird avant garde like picture, is the type of film that will appease as well as wet the likes of David Lynch, but hardly anything allegorical compared to Alejandro Jodorowsky. The entire film plays out with many different plot and story threads loosely connected as if it's a bunch of stock footage smashed together, to try and make some connection. Whether it's expressed through words on screen or acting counterparts, the plot an narrative are incredibly hard to follow, but kind of make a thoughtful connection as if the audiences are in some LSD trip. If that's the type of film you like, you may enjoy it a lot more than I did, it just didn't seem to fit together in my case and would maybe give it another viewing a couple if not several years from now to try and make some intellectual sense.
  Luke E Super Reviewer

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