Hotel | |
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Directed by | Mike Figgis |
Produced by | Andrea Calderwood Mike Figgis Annie Stewart Lesley Stewart Ernst Etchie Stroh |
Written by | Mike Figgis Heathcote Williams |
Starring |
Lucy Liu John Malkovich David Schwimmer |
Music by | Mike Figgis Anthony Marinelli |
Cinematography | Patrick Alexander Stewart |
Production
company |
Moonstone Entertainment
Channel 4 |
Distributed by |
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer United Artists |
Release date
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12 September 2001 |
Running time
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114 minutes |
Country | Italy United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Box office | $29,813 |
Hotel is a 2001 experimental British/Italian comedy/thriller film directed by Mike Figgis.
While a British film crew are shooting a version of The Duchess of Malfi in Venice, they in turn are being filmed by a sleazy documentary primadonna while the strange hotel staff share meals which consist of human meat. The story expands to involve a hit man, a call girl and the Hollywood producer.
The film itself makes several mentions of the Dogme 95 style of filmmaking, and has been described as a "Dogme film-within-a-film."
The film was not a financial success and received mixed reviews. Roger Ebert noted this and pointed out the complex nature of the film: