A Free Screening of a new feature film, "Limbo Room"
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. - The Berkshire International Film Festival and The Triplex invite the community to a Free Screening of a new feature film, Limbo Room, that is enjoying much success on the film festival circuit after the premiere at Slamdance earlier this year. The screening will be on Sunday, December 7 at 11:00 a.m. at the Triplex and is free and open to the public. Writer and director Debra Eisenstadt and actress Melissa Leo will be in attendance for a Q&A following the film.The Limbo Room features a striking new voice in American independent film in the form of actress-turned-director Debra Eisenstadt. Both David Mamet fans and disgruntled college professors, of course, will remember Eisenstadt — who made her debut as a writer-director with 2001’s Daydream Believer — from the 1994 film version of Mamet’s incendiary two-hander, in which she played the female lead opposite William H. Macy. Both that experience and the text of Oleanna itself inform this feature, which Greene calls “an intriguing blend of Michael Haneke and All About Eve,” about the blurring of reality and fiction in the lives of a group of New York stage actors working on a play involving an onstage rape.
Ray Greene from Box Office Magazine wrote, "The Limbo Room" is one of those movies that's hard to categorize but easy to admire. The premise is essentially a comedic one: an existential look at the life of a struggling actress named Ann (Andrea Powell) who is stuck in a seemingly never-ending rut as understudy to a temperamental diva (Melissa Leo) in a modestly successful off-Broadway show. As Ann nears 40, the tectonic plates of ennui and immobility she's built her world on begin to shift perceptibly. Her boyfriend of a decade proposes, but only to take her father up on the condo he promised to buy the couple if they marry. Meanwhile, things start getting odd at the show as a male lead dies and weird accusations of onstage aggression start to fly between the leading lady Ann yearns to replace and the male understudy who has made the leap Ann dreams about: from 'the limbo room," where the replacement actors are kept separated from the actual cast, to a major role as a leading player.
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