La habitación de Fermat (2007)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Directors:

Luis Piedrahita
Rodrigo Sopeña

Writers:

Luis Piedrahita (written by)
Rodrigo Sopeña (written by)

Release Date:

16 November 2007 (Spain)

Genre:

Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

Think inside the box

Plot:

Four mathematicians who do not know each other are invited by a mysterious host on the pretext of resolving a great enigma...

Plot Keywords:

Mathematician | Shrinking Room | Shrinking | Villain | Suspense

Awards:

4 wins

Cast

Lluís Homar	...	Hilbert
Alejo Sauras	...	Galois
Elena Ballesteros	...	Oliva
Santi Millán	...	Pascal
Federico Luppi	...	Fermat
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Núria Badia	...	Recepcionist
Víctor Benjumea	...	Gas Station Attendant
Ariadna Cabrol	...	Girl
Helena Carrión	...	Library assistant
Cesc Cornet	...	Boy
Juanma Falcón	...	Boy
Alicia Fernández	...	Girl
David Fernández	...	Policeman
Josep Minguell	...	Doctor
Adam Nached	...	Boy
Mariola Ruiz	...	Nurse
San Yélamos	...	Girl

Also Known As:

Fermat's Room (International: English title)
L'habitació de Fermat (Spain: Catalan title)
De kamer van Fermat (Belgium: Flemish title) [un]
Fermat' tuba (Estonia) [et]
Fermatuv pokoj (Czech Republic) [cs]
Kapan (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
La cellule de Fermat (France) [fr]
O Enigma de Fermat (Portugal) [pt]
Qube Red (Japan: English title) [en]
Zapadnja Ferma (Russia) [ru]

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

Spain

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color

Certification:

Netherlands:9

Filming Locations:

Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain

Company:

Notro Films

Quotes:

Pascal: Problem solved.

Movie Connections:

References "Lost" (2004)

Soundtrack:

Te mereces una corona de estrellas (romeras)

top performers x good plot = enjoy with maths!

Let me say in advance that, even it is a general audience movie it does the best with a bit of maths on the background, but still a very good movie indeed.

The strongest point are the top performances of Lluis Homar and Federico Luppi, finest actors very skilled in theaters and movies, supported by unexpectedly good beginners, Santi, Elena & Alejo, more trained in plain roles of teen comedies and late shows than in cinema, they do quite well and finally you understand why were they chosen for this film.

The plot is atracting from the very beginning, the most of time it goes on real-time action, with a countdown that will kill many of them if several mind games are not achieved. A new shape for a known theme, yes, but it works 100%.

And now the maths class: Every character is playing a role of a great mathematic and both players and characters were selected to fit into that role: Hilbert is an old mathematic devoted to the riddles, Pascal an engineer thinking only on the commercial application of any idea, Fermat an enigmatic person showing no more that what you want to see and Galois a young genoius but not used to think on advance. The life of those people plays a little on the movie. So now you can see what a good selection of players for this roles.

The mathematical riddles are explained easily and with no so much relationship with the main plot so they are not required to be understood to follow the film, but of course is a good point if you do it.

And finally, the Fermat's Last Theorem: It is already demonstrated so don't expect any surprise on this movie. But if you want, you can take a look to the Goldbach's Conjecture, maybe it helps.