Stockholm Film Festival

The beat generation echoes through the hallways and corridors. The Chelsea Hotel, New York, renowned for its many famous customers, the legends about them and the deaths of some of them.

Ethan Hawke's film revolves around artists, musicians, writers and poets, everyone lost in their attempts to create something out of nothing. Chelsea Walls is as much about contemplation and soul searching as it is about a concrete cultural era, still very popular in people's memory, but also hard to define.

The film experiments with having an almost constant soundtrack (by country-pop group Wilco), mixed with poetic readings à la Ginsberg and the intertwining dialogue of the many hotel guests. The film world-premiered in the Director's Fortnight in Cannes.

Johan Lindqvist

Premiärstatus

Nordisk premiär

Medverkande

Kevin Corrigan, Rosario Dawson,
Vincent D’Onofrio, Kris Kristofferson, Robert Sean Leonard, Natasha Richardson, Uma Thurman, Mark Webber, Tuesday Weld, Frank Whaley, Steven Zahn

Producent

Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler, Gary Winick, Alexis Alexanian

Manus

Nicole Burdette

Foto

Tom Richmond, Richard Rutowski

Musik

Jeff Tweedy

Talat språk

English

 

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