Hotel Monterey

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Audience Member Useless and stupid. Never again.......... Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review justin w Even on this moves slow. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Similar to La Chambre, Hotel Monterey is a silent experiment in time as Akerman travels through a run-down hotel in New York and filming whatever she felt needed to be filmed. Sometimes the camera moves sometimes the terrain moves, sometimes nothing moves. You are in the moment with her. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member If you can tune yourself into its wavelength this can very beautiful at times. For the most part, I did. However, this isn't nearly as interesting as later Akerman experiments in creating formalist essays such News From Home and the great D'est. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member A journey through a cheap hotel in New York where some of America's oddest people go to. Director Chantal Akerman invites us to visit this cheap hotel and take a journey from the entrance lobby, to the elevator, to the hallways and a few rooms, and finally to the rooftop where we can observe the rest of the world outside. There is no plot, mostly static images where we observe happens as well as what doesn't happen in the different halls and rooms. It becomes a bit more stimulating once the camera finally starts moving after half an hour or so without almost any movement. With it's lack of a narrative as well as sound, it is a difficult silent experimental work that will bore most, but is worth watching for some nicely composed shots. Not the easiest experimental work to view, but also not as hard as many others. This was Chantal Akerman's first feature film after having made a few short films prior to this, but it contains some of the same aesthetics and techniques that Akerman would employ three years later in her masterpiece Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. 8/10 Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member weird but watchable this "silent" doc examines a run down hotel & the peeps that live there Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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