Hotel

Name: Hotel
Genre: Comedy
Released: July 25, 2003
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 47
Cast: Max Beesley, Rhys Ifans, Saffron Burrows, Salma Hayek

2003

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Gallery Motion Pictures | Release Date: July 25, 2003 | TV-MA

Starring: Max Beesley, Rhys Ifans, Saffron Burrows, Salma Hayek

Summary: Like Figgis's "Time Code," this experimental ensemble piece splits the screen between four simultaneous storylines: the filming of a period movie "The Duchess of Malfi," a sleazy documentary about the making of that movie, a murder plot, and a bizarre maid service. The four stories ultimately converge during the festivities of the Venice Carnival.

Director: Mike Figgis

Genre(s): Comedy

Rating: TV-MA

Runtime: 93 min

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A.O. Scott

Though finally overwhelmed by a preening lassitude, Hotel is never less than fascinating. Read full review

Roger Ebert

Most audiences will find it baffling and unsatisfactory. Those who are open to its flywheel peculiarities may find it bold, funny, peculiar and delightful. Read full review

Andrew O'Hehir

If you're ready to roll with Hotel and take what it gives you, there's some rich entertainment here. Read full review

Scott Tobias

Until he finds a style to better communicate ideas or emotions, Figgis' plans to reinvent cinema will have to go back to the drawing board. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

A train wreck of a film whose chaotic, partly improvised story and too-tricky mix of film stocks, image sizes, split-screen effects and color/B&W footage overwhelm some phenomenally beautiful sequences and a memorable performance by Saffron Burroughs. Read full review

Rich Cline

Despite the bits that work brilliantly, the movie as a whole really only works as an experimental curiosity. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Figgis certainly was after something different, but like "Timecode," in which four linked stories unwind in separate panels, Hotel proves to be a fundamentally insipid bid at experimental narrative. Read full review

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TimH.

Jan 3, 2006

Loosen up people. A bit capricious and the slightest bit obtuse, but it's nice to see someone with the courage to take some risks and try something new. A film need not reinvent cinema or perform a masterstroke to be worth watching or to sooth a brain that's worn thin by Loosen up people. A bit capricious and the slightest bit obtuse, but it's nice to see someone with the courage to take some risks and try something new. A film need not reinvent cinema or perform a masterstroke to be worth watching or to sooth a brain that's worn thin by Hollywood's near-constant flow of uninspired trash based on much-hackneyed premises and painfully simple cliches. If this film is a personal milestone for the director on the path to finding their own voice, then I am honored to have been witness to the unfoldment of even a fragment of their dreams in cinema-graphic form. To be sure, the film contains many great ideas and some fresh editing approaches at the very least. Well done and I wish this director the very best!… Expand

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