In My Room

Armin, a forty-year-old photographer is getting too old for his favorite hobbies: Berlin’s night-life and incessant womanizing. He is not happy and cannot imagine an alternative way of life, until one morning, when he waked up to a world that is both recognizable and different in every way: a world in which he can do whatever he wants as he is the only human being on earth. Recently screened at Cannes, Ulrich Köhler’s fourth film is an ambitious and rewarding work that bolsters his status as one of the most fascinating voices in German cinema today. According to Sight and Sound, Köhler successfully manages to season his critique of modern Western culture with a touch of comic relief.