Hotel Chevalier
| Movie | |
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| German title | Hotel Chevalier |
| Original title | Hotel Chevalier |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 13 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Wes Anderson |
| script | Wes Anderson |
| production | John Runkle |
| camera | Robert D. Yeoman |
| cut | Vincent Marchand |
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Hotel Chevalier is a short film by director Wes Anderson from 2007. It is also the prologue to his film Darjeeling Limited . The location was the Hotel Raphaël in Paris .
action
The action takes place in room 403 of the Parisian Hotel Chevalier . After ordering food from room service, Jack ( Jason Schwartzman ) receives a surprise visit from his ex-girlfriend ( Natalie Portman ), who is in town for the day. After looking at the room, brushing her teeth and the waiter bringing the food, Jack starts undressing his ex-girlfriend and notices bruises on her. She wants both of them to remain friends and confesses her love to Jack, but he is cool and dismissive towards her. The film ends with the two of them leaving on the balcony and looking at the opposite street.
From the feature film Darjeeling Limited it emerges that Jack is one of three emotionally disturbed brothers.
music
The Pavane pour une infante défunte by Maurice Ravel is played by the French pianist Pascal Rogé (* 1951).
Reviews
Rüdiger Suchsland from Telepolis was disappointed that Hotel Chevalier was only the supporting film: “It is better and richer in content than the main film - which does not mean that it has a lot to say or that it is not primarily influenced by brand fetishism. But at least it's about something. And everything that "Hotel Chevalier" does NOT say and everything it shows is a hundred times more interesting and touching than every second of "The Darjeeling Limited." The pleasure is only mitigated by the fact that the film is difficult to access; on i-Tunes and on You-Tube it is deleted very quickly and very regularly. "
Dominik Kamalzadeh from Standard saw a “wonderfully laconic short film” , it seemed “a bit like a case study for the way Anderson understands characters and their world: They are compellingly fitted into their environment, almost as if they were one themselves illustrious piece of equipment. But there is always a residue, a mistake, a gap [...] "
Web links
- Hotel Chevalier in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website of the film (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ By far the greatest film nuisance of the century , article by Rüdiger Suchsland from January 3, 2008, accessed on January 17, 2008
- ↑ One self-discovery and back ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Article by Dominik Kamalzadeh, DER STANDARD / print edition from 5./6. January 2008
