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Sep 26, 2003 · Powered by JustWatch. Here's a strange case. "Hotel" is a movie that works in no conventional sense, and succeeds in several unconventional ones. Most audiences will find it baffling and unsatisfactory. Those who are open to its flywheel peculiarities may find it bold, funny, peculiar and delightful.
The film was not a financial success and received mixed reviews. Roger Ebert noted this and pointed out the complex nature of the film: Many critics have agreed that Hotel is not successful, but I would ask: Not successful at what? Before you conclude that a movie doesn't work, you have to determine what it intends to do.
- Andrea Calderwood, Mike Figgis, Annie Stewart, Lesley Stewart, Ernst Etchie Stroh
- Mike Figgis, Anthony Marinelli
- 12 September 2001
Apr 5, 2002 · Hotel: Directed by Mike Figgis. With Max Beesley, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Brian Bovell, Saffron Burrows. A sex worker, a hired killer, and a movie crew cross paths in a Venice hotel where human meat is on the menu in this freewheeling film.
- (2.1K)
- Comedy
- Mike Figgis
- 2002-04-05
100% Tomatometer 7 Reviews 43% Audience Score 50+ Ratings Warren Trent (Melvyn Douglas) may own a hotel that's the epitome of luxury, but the accounting books tell a different story. The St ...
- (8)
- Richard Quine
- PG
- Rod Taylor
I've stayed in many hotels. The movie Hotel reminds me of the worst hotels. Someone suggested film students should see this film. And yes, they should. So they know what it takes to make a boring film. I think the majority of movie watchers like a film they can follow, even if it is a bit confusing. But Hotel goes way beyond confusing.
Watching Hotel as a single contiguous story is an attempt in futility. Watching Hotel as a satire on Hollywood and the chaos that it perpetrates is the only way to make any sort of sense of Hotel. It's like a metaphorical tin hat tract of paranoia. Figgis pulls no punches, either. He's scathing in this, leaving no body untainted.
Recommendations. A sex worker, a hired killer, and a movie crew cross paths in a Venice hotel where human meat is on the menu in this freewheeling film.
