Værelse 304

Though considered merely passable by most online critics, this little film will endure./ Like Warhol's Chelsea Girls, Room 304 concerns the sordid lives of a cursed hotel, its focal point the room in which its manager and his colleague have an affair. In other rooms we find a Spanish hooker, a Kosovan refugee couple, and a travelling businessman-cum-Kosovan war criminal familiar to one of the refugees. A gun that turns up in the hotel laundry gets passed around till the vengeful refugee gets a hold of it then...the only flaw here is the film's relentless gravity. Still, it has something to say about a certain desperation that has virtually become the order of the day.

I really enjoyed this film. The characters were individually drawn and the suspense was real. I particularly enjoyed Lourdes Faberes performance. She drifted in and out of scenes as the maid she was, in character and I couldn't keep my eyes off her. I felt that she held the story together and that the film was well written. I liked the individual viewpoint of the filmmakers. Got a little confused by one of the female characters. I couldn't figure out who she was married to. But other than that, I enjoyed the feeling of being a tourist in a mysterious hotel.

A well done independent film.