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One room. Four genius minds. The greatest enigma will be how to survive. Fermat s Room (La habitación de Fermat) is a stunning Spanish thriller, winner of numerous festival awards. The film stars two of Spain s best known actors; Santi Millán (Idiot Love) and Lluis Homar (Almodóvar s Bad Education and Broken Embraces) as well as the ever popular Federico Luppi (Pan s Labyrinth), Alejo Sauras, and Elena Ballesteros. Four strangers, who are all mathematicians, are invited to spend a weekend together where they will be challenged to solve a great enigma. Their mysterious host is only known to them by a pseudonym: Fermat. But the room in which they find themselves turns out to be a death-trap that will crush them if they do not discover in time what connects them all and why someone might wish to murder them.
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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I shamelessly stole and adapated the title of this review for good reason. The nowadays sadly obligatory review quote on the DVD box reads "Pi meets Cube with a dash of Saw". I'm not certain that's entirely accurate and liked the actual tagline "Think inside the box" a whole lot more.
Yes there are numbers involved (Pi). Yes they are trapped in a kind of box-deathtrap (Cube) and yes there is an unknown devilish tormenter who poses riddles (Saw) but to break "Fermat's Room" up into merely the sum of it's parts is to do this film a great disservice.
(Also mention of "Cube" and "Saw" is perhaps aimed at attracting slightly the wrong audience while "Pi" the "Jewish horror film about maths" is a lot closer to the mark.... but maybe I'm reading too much into it).
Frankly this is a film that would struggle to find screentime at most multiplex cinemas. The release of "Fermat's Room" in the UK is unapologetically aimed at a niche audience. It's a foreign language, low-budget, mathematics-themed horror/thriller and I enjoyed it heartily.
Four apparent strangers are invited by riddle to attend the solving of a mysterious enigma that would challenge the greatest of minds. Their intellectual curiosity and perhaps arrogance leads them into a potential deathtrap of solving timed mathematical riddles to stay alive (To be just the slightest bit critical here I did find some of the riddles less than challenging as they tended to be the kind of logic puzzles I learned as a child). Of course the film's biggest riddle of all is why, specifically, are they there.
What starts most sedately gradually escalates into a crescendo of panic, paranoia, accusation and the will to survive. The characters and you the viewer are misdirected at every turn plunging you directly into the frenetic pacing as the very literal end draws ever closer.
There are some truly standout moments of cinematic style that only European cinema seems capable of pulling off these days and as the clues and conclusions come thick and fast you struggle to keep up with the supposed geniuses. There is little time for idle thought and I suspect a few people may even get left behind if they so much as blink.
Exciting, intelligent, unpatronising and distincly continental cinema which may not be 100% original but does improve upon the formula tenfold.
Highly recommended.
Yes there are numbers involved (Pi). Yes they are trapped in a kind of box-deathtrap (Cube) and yes there is an unknown devilish tormenter who poses riddles (Saw) but to break "Fermat's Room" up into merely the sum of it's parts is to do this film a great disservice.
(Also mention of "Cube" and "Saw" is perhaps aimed at attracting slightly the wrong audience while "Pi" the "Jewish horror film about maths" is a lot closer to the mark.... but maybe I'm reading too much into it).
Frankly this is a film that would struggle to find screentime at most multiplex cinemas. The release of "Fermat's Room" in the UK is unapologetically aimed at a niche audience. It's a foreign language, low-budget, mathematics-themed horror/thriller and I enjoyed it heartily.
Four apparent strangers are invited by riddle to attend the solving of a mysterious enigma that would challenge the greatest of minds. Their intellectual curiosity and perhaps arrogance leads them into a potential deathtrap of solving timed mathematical riddles to stay alive (To be just the slightest bit critical here I did find some of the riddles less than challenging as they tended to be the kind of logic puzzles I learned as a child). Of course the film's biggest riddle of all is why, specifically, are they there.
What starts most sedately gradually escalates into a crescendo of panic, paranoia, accusation and the will to survive. The characters and you the viewer are misdirected at every turn plunging you directly into the frenetic pacing as the very literal end draws ever closer.
There are some truly standout moments of cinematic style that only European cinema seems capable of pulling off these days and as the clues and conclusions come thick and fast you struggle to keep up with the supposed geniuses. There is little time for idle thought and I suspect a few people may even get left behind if they so much as blink.
Exciting, intelligent, unpatronising and distincly continental cinema which may not be 100% original but does improve upon the formula tenfold.
Highly recommended.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
It is very hard to review this film without spoiling the plot but I will try my best. A group of very different people receive individual invitations to a dinner hosted by a genius. They all eventually decide to go, to find on arrival that their host is missing. Soon after dinner, they find that they have to solve problems against the clock. If they fail to do so, something nasty happens. What is the reason for this ? What is the connection between the characters. Can they solve the problems in time? All is revealed eventually, with great twists and turns that keep you guessing. If it sounds a bit like an Agatha Christie play, you are not a million miles away. However, it is crisper, better plotted, and better acted than most of hers will ever be. One for fans of World Cinema and mystery thrillers, none of whom should be disappointed by this Spanish mini-classic.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I'm not sure where I picked this film up from but I really enjoyed it. I was gripped from the start and enjoyed the successive reveals, the film is quite a short film but not harmed for that.
So highly recommended.
So highly recommended.
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Nice surprise
I have to be honest I didnt expect much from this film when I started watching however I was pleasantly surprised by this little film. Read more
Published 3 months ago by sheldongate
Ok, unless you are claustrophobic!
A bit like Saw without the gore!
An intriguing start and story premise. Well acted with an OK script. It would have made a good hours length film. Read more
An intriguing start and story premise. Well acted with an OK script. It would have made a good hours length film. Read more
Published 6 months ago by G. Brooks
A superb, mathematical mystery thriller
Fermat's Room is a well paced mystery thriller to keep you guessing throughout as four mathematicians, at different moments in their careers and lives, come together to discuss a... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Mr. James Dickson
Like watching in "Blur"-ray, good film though
It`s a rare breed, the old math-based thriller. Which is how this is described, but it`s more than that. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Little Cat Voom
Original yet very predictable.
I thought this was an entertaining thriller, and superbly acted, however, I found the storyline particularly obvious, and it was a little frustrating as I expected a bit from this. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Louise Roberts
Spoilt by bad subtitles
Reading the reviews, I was looking forward to watching this movie.Unfortunately, the reasoning behind the predicament the protaganists found themseleves in was lost in the... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Ian
The Walls Are Closing In...
Fermat's Room is a Spanish locked-room puzzler in the vein of Cube, Exam and The Killing Room where everyone inside is looking for a way to escape or win. Read more
Published 20 months ago by P. J. Potter
Disappointing
I bought this along with 2 other related films that Amazon recommended to me.
The other two (Storm and Primer) I watched and will watch again, where as this one I have... Read more
The other two (Storm and Primer) I watched and will watch again, where as this one I have... Read more
Published 22 months ago by J Meaden
Enthralling
I bought this film having already seen it once at the cinema (I went knowing nothing about it although I had heard of Fermat's last theorem) and found it absolutely gripping. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Johnson48
Good stuff
A nice little mystery thriller, sort of in the same vein as Cube. The set up is certainly a lot of fun, but the conclusion wasn't exactly breath-taking. Read more
Published on 16 April 2010 by A. Wall
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