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Rhys Ifans, Saffron Burrows, David Schwimmer, Salma Hayek, Burt Reynolds ... see more see more... , Julian Sands , Danny Huston , Lucy Liu , Mia Maestro , Chiara Mastroianni , Laura Morante , Ornella Muti , Heathcote Williams , Jason Isaacs , Fabrizio Bentivoglio , Brian Bovell , George DiCenzo , Christopher Fulford , Valeria Golino , Mark Long , Valentina Cervi , Nicola Farron , Jeremy Hardy , Mark Strong , Stefania Rocca , Andrea Di Stefano , Max Beesley , Elisabetta Cavallotti , Danny Sapani , Alexandra Staden , Eva Yerbabuena , Paco Jarana

Following up on his innovative work Timecode, which featured four stories being told in real time simultaneously, Mike Figgis returns to a modified form of his technique in this film about the tourist... read more read more...s, the prostitutes, the tour guides, a killer, and a film crew who frequent the Hungarian Palace Hotel in Venice, Italy. A corrupt Eastern European politician and his moll are visiting the city to complete a shady business deal while Sophie is a high-priced call girl who makes an office in one of the hotel's suites. The film crew is attempting to shoot a Dogma 95-style adaptation of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi only to run into one problem after another. Magic is a professional assassin with a very odd kink -- he must have sex immediately after completing a job. Quintus, who abandoned his attempts to get fame and fortune as an actor, is a tour guide with an unusual secret. And then there is maid who not only has the skeleton key to the hotel, but also a habit of snooping. This film was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 49 min.

Directed by: Mike Figgis

Release Date: July 25, 2003

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DVD Release Date: July 26, 2005

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  • SirPant
    September 29, 2009
    SirPant
    Odd film this. Odd and pretentious. I quite like odd films but not pretentious ones. It has an interesting cast and is an interesting experiment but Mike Figgis really needs to put his hands up and own up to this being a terrible mistake. He?s a great director though so I?ll for... read moregive him but for anyone else, that would be it!
  • gator681
    June 2, 2006
    gator681
    [font=Century Gothic]With "Hotel", director Mike Figgis cuts down on some of the same techniques he used in his previous experimental film, "Time Code", like multiple images and filming in real time(which works better in a thriller like "24", anyway). This time he comes up with... read more something approaching a lucid narrative. The movie is about the production of a film version of "The Duchess of Malfi" in Venice under Dogme 95 rules(although technically you could not make a period piece under those rules...) by a maniacal director(Rhys Ifans) which is being recorded for posterity by a documentary filmmaker(Salma Hayek). [/font]
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    [font=Century Gothic]"Hotel" gets off to a good start but becomes incoherent about the time that Burt Reynolds shows up. There are several sex scenes which have no context and a mistaken identity subplot is never resolved. Michael Winterbottom did a much better job and had much more fun with with the similarly themed "Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story".[/font]
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    [font=Century Gothic]It seems like the large and varied cast is improvising much of the dialogue, giving actors including Rhys Ifans, Salma Hayek and Julian Sands free rein to dominate over everybody else. Surprisingly, David Schwimmer is the calm in the middle of the storm.[/font]

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Critic Reviews

Desson Thomson
October 3, 2003
Desson Thomson, Washington Post

Wears out its welcome pretty fast.

John Monaghan
September 26, 2003
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press

Pretentious avant-garde comedy.

Roger Ebert
September 26, 2003
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

A movie that works in no conventional sense, and succeeds in several unconventional ones. Full Review

Robert K. Elder
September 25, 2003
Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune

Pretensions permeate Hotel, which, as a movie about movies, is the cinematic equivalent of a humor column in The Hollywood Reporter. Full Review

Bob Campbell
July 31, 2003
Bob Campbell, Newark Star-Ledger

It's a love-it-or- hate-it proposition. Full Review

Richard Roeper
July 28, 2003
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

If you came across Hotel playing on monitors in a museum of contemporary art it would grab your attention for a while, but as a movie, it's too pretentious, too confusing and just too much. Full Review

Jonathan Foreman
July 25, 2003
Jonathan Foreman, New York Post

There are clever, funny, erotic and visually beautiful moments scattered throughout the film.

Jack Mathews
July 25, 2003
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News

A jumbled, self-indulgent mess with a rash of story lines and a squandered cast. Full Review

Elvis Mitchell
July 24, 2003
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times

Some may say it's like watching wine age in a bottle, but the movie also offers the subtle sense of the flavor changing from minute to minute. Full Review

Laura Sinagra
July 22, 2003
Laura Sinagra, Village Voice

Sexed-up, teched-up, theater-troupe pedantry disguised as avant-garde film. Full Review

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