Hotel New Hampshire (film)

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Movie
German title Hotel New Hampshire
Original title The Hotel New Hampshire
Country of production USA , UK , Canada
original language English
Publishing year 1984
length 104 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Tony Richardson
script Tony Richardson
production Pieter Kroonenburg
David J. Patterson
Neil Hartley
music Jacques Offenbach
Raymond Leppard
camera David Watkin
cut Robert K. Lambert
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Hotel New Hampshire (original title: The Hotel New Hampshire ) is a tragic comedy from 1984 . The director was Tony Richardson . The film was based on the novel The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving from 1981. The screenplay is by Tony Richardson; the actors involved Jodie Foster , Nastassja Kinski and Rob Lowe made numerous changes.

History of origin

After Jodie Foster met Nastassja Kinski during an interview, the two women looked for a way to work together on a film project. The film Hotel New Hampshire provided the opportunity. According to some sources, Jodie Foster, who was a literary student at the time, specifically mentioned that a popular novel should be made into a film.

Hotel New Hampshire was filmed in Tadoussac , Québec , Canada . Jodie Foster reported in some interviews about the particularly good atmosphere during the work.

action

The film tells the story of the Berry family , who run various hotels in the USA and Europe. It offers a wealth of comical, bizarre and tragic situations and characters.

The eldest daughter of the family, Franny, falls in love with Chip Dove, but she is raped by him. Her older brother Frank comes out a little later as a homosexual. Lilly, the youngest and smallest daughter in the family, tries her hand at writing.

The family travels to Vienna to run a hotel there. Mrs. Berry, who was traveling a little later, died in a plane disaster. In Vienna, Franny meets shy Susie, who only dares to socialize in a bear costume . Franny sleeps with Susie and a little later with the terrorist Ernst, who wants to blow up the Vienna Opera. This makes John Berry, who is in love with his sister, jealous. When the entire family tries to prevent the attack, the bomb does not explode in the opera but in front of the hotel. Win Berry loses his eyesight in the process.

Since the short Lilly was able to successfully publish the novel Growth Attempts, the family becomes rich and can return to the USA . John runs into Chip Dove by chance on a New York street, who Franny would like to see again. Lilly develops a revenge scenario in which Chip Dove is stripped and held. Susie, disguised as a bear, sets out to rape him, but Franny interrupts the production. She says she has now been able to free herself from her memories of Chip Dove.

Franny agrees to sleep with her brother John, which he uses immediately. After a sex marathon lasting several hours, Franny wants to start the rest of life , whereupon the siblings drink a toast.

The family buys a hotel in the country that has no guests. Franny becomes a successful actress, Lilly's second novel is a failure. She commits suicide by falling out of the window, whereby she just ignores the principle of the family "keep away from open windows" mentioned several times in the film.

Franny marries a former African American schoolmate, John starts a relationship with Susie. In the final scene all family members, including those who have died, appear.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films wrote: " Film adaptation of the turbulent novel by John Irving, in which the beginnings of grotesquely ironic criticism of the time collide with the overabundance of nonsensical vulgar scenes."

Cinema magazine called the film "grotesque", "subversive", "snappy", "fun" and "a wild satire on the problems of the middle class".

Background information

The film was shot from May 2 to June 26, 1983. The budget was about 7.5 million US dollars. In US cinemas, the revenue reached $ 5.1 million.

The rock band Queen was supposed to compose some songs for the film, but the collaboration did not go well. The only finished song, Keep Passing The Open Windows , was later released on the album The Works .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release Certificate for Hotel New Hampshire . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2010 (PDF; test number: 55 281 V).
  2. ^ Hotel New Hampshire. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ^ Cinema