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Hotel

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Hotel

R

2001

1h 49m

Comedy

Drama

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27 Reviews

31%

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In Venice, Italy, a collection of strangers at a hotel vary from strange to corrupt to disturbed. A film crew from the U.K. is in the process of filming a take on the play "The Duchess of Malfi" by John Webster, while a documentarian records their work behind the scenes. A tour guide (Julian Sands) is hiding something. A call girl establishes herself as a hotel presence, and maids practice strange acts and behaviors. Meanwhile, an assassin (Andrea Di Stefano) frequents the hotel after jobs.

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Critics Consensus

Hotel earns a handful of points for sheer ambition, but they aren't enough to carry the movie over its steep pretensions.

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Empire Magazine

Rated: 3/5

Dec 30, 2006

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Desson Thomson

Washington Post

Wears out its welcome pretty fast.

Oct 3, 2003

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John Monaghan

Detroit Free Press

Pretentious avant-garde comedy.

Rated: 2/4

Sep 26, 2003

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Kaleem Aftab

The List

Not entirely successful, but unlike anything you've seen before.

Rated: 3/5

Apr 17, 2019

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Jason Gorber

Film Scouts

Its convoluted, highly allegorical story line will put off many. However, it is certainly a fresh and original take on digital cinema, and, for no other reason, it may be appreciated as a film stretching the very form of filmmaking.

Rated: B+

Jun 21, 2007

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Film Threat

Rated: 1.5/5

Dec 6, 2005

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Audience Member

I should have stopped watching this film when Jason Isaacs left the picture. This is a film so bad that Satan has banned it from being watched in Hell because it's too awful that even he wouldn't inflict it on someone. The lovely Salma Hayek is in this, but it definitely wasn't worth my time except to read on the IMDB message boards that this film totally ruins what's apparently a good play, "The Duchess of Malfi."

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Surely one of the worst, if not THE worst, movies I have ever seen. A boring, incoherent, pretentious pile of sh*t. The presence of Julian Sands and David Schwimmer in the cast says it all.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/20/23

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Audience Member

The opening scenes with John Malkovich showed promise,the rest of the film sucked.No script,no direction,baaaaaaad acting.A total waist of time.Mike Figgas should be sued.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/23/23

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Audience Member

Star Studded cast in an experiment indy film. Well....the experiment failed miserably. The point was completely muddled. The storyline was like a splat: it started & then went in many different directions but leading to nothing but a dead end. Skip this and watch grass grow - it would be much more riveting.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/10/23

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Audience Member

Horrible. Pretentios. One of the worst movies I've ever seen. I will never watch another Mike Figgis film. He has nothing to say and so disguises that with cheap camera tricks. Pure load of crap.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/15/23

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Love it, love it. Great film

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/26/23

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Synopsis

In Venice, Italy, a collection of strangers at a hotel vary from strange to corrupt to disturbed. A film crew from the U.K. is in the process of filming a take on the play "The Duchess of Malfi" by John Webster, while a documentarian records their work behind the scenes. A tour guide (Julian Sands) is hiding something. A call girl establishes herself as a hotel presence, and maids practice strange acts and behaviors. Meanwhile, an assassin (Andrea Di Stefano) frequents the hotel after jobs.

Director: Mike Figgis
Producer: Mike Figgis, Annie Stewart, Ernst Etchie Stroh
Screenwriter: Mike Figgis
Production Co: Cattleya
Rating: R (Language|Violence|Strong Sexual Content)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 7, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $28.8K
Runtime: 1h 49m

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