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Hotel

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41% Tomatometer 27 Reviews 31% Popcornmeter 1,000+ Ratings
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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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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Desson Thomson Washington Post 10/03/2003
Wears out its welcome pretty fast. Go to Full Review
John Monaghan Detroit Free Press 09/26/2003
2/4
Pretentious avant-garde comedy. Go to Full Review
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times 09/26/2003
3/4
Here's a strange case. Hotel is a movie that works in no conventional sense, and succeeds in several unconventional ones. Go to Full Review
Kaleem Aftab The List 04/17/2019
3/5
Not entirely successful, but unlike anything you've seen before. Go to Full Review
Jason Gorber Film Scouts 06/21/2007
B+
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. Go to Full Review
Film Threat 12/06/2005
1.5/5
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Scott E Dec 27 Entertaining creativity, but a plot would have been nice. See more 01/01/2011 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." See more Grant S 04/24/2010 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. See more 10/28/2009 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. See more 09/07/2009 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. See more 07/08/2009 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. See more Read all reviews
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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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