Hotel

A young woman, Irene, arrives to an isolated hotel surrounded by dark woods in the Austrian Alps. During her first day as a front-desk clerk, as she is shown around at the hotel, she is struck by the coldness of the hotel interiors - the empty hallways, the flickering lights. Irene is replacing a young woman who has mysteriously disappeared. She discovers that her predecessor was murdered, and her fear of the woods and the cold atmosphere of the hotel grows every minute.
Austrian director Jessica Hausner has made a film in the tradition of David Lynch and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, creating an
environment permeated by the very notion that something bad is about to happen. Detecting every angle of the claustrophobic rooms, the camera examines the spatial dimensions of the hotel, making the woman feel isolated and exposed. She is an outsider, trapped inside the suffocating hotel walls, as if she was caught in a bad dream with many questions and no answers. The film follows the tradition of tension building, but is original in its way of withholding information to the very verge of madness. Hotel was screened in Un Certain Regard at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

NATALIE MAJERSKI

Premiärstatus
Svensk premiär: Medverkande
Franziska Weisz, Birgit Minicmeyr,Marlene Streeruwitz: Producent
Bruno Wagner: Manus
Jessica Hausner: Foto
Martin Gschlacht: Talat språk
German