Apartment Zero

With APARTMENT ZERO, director-cowriter Martin Donovan uses a thriller format to cleverly fashion a diatribe against the oppressive Argentinean military regime that was responsible for countless brutal "disappearances." Set in the post-junta era, this rococo suspense film centers on Adrian LeDuc (Colin Firth), a fastidious, paranoid Argentinean. Politically neutral and socially self-ostracized, LeDuc lives an uneventful life until finances force him to seek a roommate. Like a reincarnation of eternal movie rebel and sex symbol James Dean, Jack Carney (Hart Bochner) enters his life. But the mysterious stranger proves to be all things to all people in the apartment bu...