Shows that war is horrible, but fails to fully understand the people who experience the horror beyond their sad exteriors.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
A prodigious, almost spiritual experience, a luminous, challenging art movie out of the Tarkovsky school that happens to be about a real war and its effects on real children.
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Consistently moving but never quite coalesces into a strongly coherent whole.
The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
Superbly conveys its themes of despair and lost opportunities.
Frustratingly little here grapples with the day-to-day realities of life in Chechnya and the surrounding areas.
Viewers will either be transported by Honkasalo's somber artistry or begging for someone to stick a gasoline-filled syringe into their veins...As art, 3 Rooms is magnificent, but as a viewing experience, it's almost impossible.
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
The film is a requiem for the living as well as for the dead.
An achingly beautiful look at the most tragic victims of the longtime war in Chechnya: children.