28 Hotel Rooms (2012)
Directed by Matt Ross
While traveling for work in a city far from their homes, a novelist and a corporate accountant find themselves in bed together. Although she’s married, and he’s seeing someone, their intense attraction turns a one-night stand into an unexpected relationship and a respite from the obligations of daily life. Through a series of moments – some profound, some silly, some intensely intimate – we see a portrait of an evolving relationship that could become the most significant one of their lives.
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Though it’s been just four years since Ross’ debut, “28 Hotel Rooms,” premiered at Sundance, his writing and directing skills have progressed so much in that time, this sophomore effort could pass for a fourth or fifth feature, boasting studio-caliber production values while preserving the personal ambition of an independently made passion project.
Like Ross’ 2012 feature filmmaking debut, the intimate two-hander “28 Hotel Rooms,” “Captain Fantastic” first screened at the Sundance Film Festival, where it largely won audiences over with its disarming blend of quotable cleverness and meticulous emotional calculation — if disarming is the word for a movie about a guy who gives his kids military-grade hunting knives as presents.
“Captain Fantastic” is an important step forward for Ross, in terms of broadening both his audience and the scope of his filmmaking (it’s worth mentioning that Ross’ first feature film, “28 Hotel Rooms,” which few people saw, was also intelligent and thoughtful, playing on the fault lines between wrong and right).
It’s only the second feature from Ross, who’s better known as an actor, and shows a considerable advance on his debut, 2012’s little-seen “28 Hotel Rooms.”
Writer/director Matt Ross, a Sundance veteran whose first feature, "28 Hotel Rooms," premiered at the fest in 2012, also casts an excellent group to play Ben's progeny.
"Silicon Valley" actor (and "28 Hotel Rooms" director) Matt Ross directs and writes "Captain Fantastic" as a more accessible, energetic variation on Harrison Ford's similarly themed drama "Mosquito Coast."