The Mars Room Movie

It is audacious and tragic propulsive and yet beautifully refined.

The mars room movie.

Directed by ridley scott. The mars room is a provocative raveworthy exploration of choices or indeed the absence of any perceived choice for adolescent and teen female criminals on the lower echelon of the socio economic scale who grow up sexually abused addicted to street drugs and or engaged in a sex related trade because they ve had no choice in where how and by. Stunning and unsentimental the mars room demonstrates new levels of mastery and depth in kushner s work. With matt damon jessica chastain kristen wiig kate mara.

In the mars room the neglected become the focus and it s apparent that kushner s imagination almost dickensian in its amplitude also embraces some of dickens s reformist zeal. Ironically the mars room is best in its minor incidents. On november 5 2018 the mars room received france s prix médicis étranger. A weird little chapter about richard nixon in opryland for instance is darkly comic and unsettling while hinting at some chilling.

The mars room jumps back and forth in time between present day at stanville women s correctional facility where myriad humiliations occur and romy s upbringing in a rough san francisco. Brilliant but devastating the mars room chronicles life behind bars may 10 2018 rachel kushner s heartbreaking nearly flawless third novel centers on romy hall a young woman who s just been. The mars room was shortlisted for the 2018 man booker prize and the national book critics circle award for fiction.