Acclaimed out of the Toronto International Film Festival as a brutal, feminist neo-western, Daniel Barbers The Keeping Room is set to hit theaters, VOD and more next fall from Drafthouse Films.
The latest in Drafthouses slate of atypical, often stunning genre films including Borgman, Cheap Thrills and Nothing Bad Can Happen, The Keeping Room stars Brit Marling (Sound of My Voice), Hailee Steinfeld, Muna Otaru and Sam Worthington. The film focuses on the violent resilience and dramatic camaraderie of three Southern women as their home is besieged during the purges at the close of the American Civil War. Forced to defend their land and fight for their lives, the women take up arms against their male oppressors, shattering gender and genre conventions in the process.
“The Keeping Room is a film that instantly resonated with us on so many levels,” said James Emanuel Shapiro, Drafthouse Films COO. “Not only is it filmmaking of the highest level but it challenges formulas with such convictions that we were all affected by its potency.”
Barber previously helmed the Michael Caine-starring urban landscape revenge drama Harry Brown.
