Main Cast: Max Beesley, Rhys Ifans, Saffron Burrows, David Schwimmer, Salma Hayek, Burt Reynolds
Release Year: 2001
Country: IT/UK
Run Time: 109 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
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 tourists, 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, All Movie Guide
Celestia Fox - Casting, Lesley Stewart - Co-producer, Catherine Buyse Dian - Costume Designer, Mike Figgis - Director, Mike Figgis - Composer (Music Score), Anthony Marinelli - Composer (Music Score), Franco Fumagalli - Production Designer, Patrick Alexander Stewart - Cinematographer, Mike Figgis - Producer, Annie Stewart - Producer, Etchie Stroh - Producer, Louise Hammar - Sound/Sound Designer, Mike Figgis - Screen Story, Heathcote Williams - Screenwriter, John Webster - Book Author
Hotel is a 2001 experimental thriller film directed by Mike Figgis.
Plot
While a British film crew are shooting a version of The Duchess of Malfi in Venice, they in turn are being filmed by a sleasy documentary primadonna while the strange staff share meals which consist of human meat. Then there is the hit man, the call girl and the Hollywood producer all managing to become part of the madness...[2]
