It's hard to tell the exact purpose of something like "Texas Hotel" and if there is one besides showing a day in the life of guests and workers
at a known hotel in Pernambuco where the bizarre and grotesque clash with unusual situations and peculiar characters. There's the hotel clerk
killed by two Argentinean tourists; there's the gay cleaning man who wants to find a way to bury the dead body; or the foreign man (Jonas Bloch)
who refuses to borrow his beloved coffin to put the dead man in; among other strange characters trying to live their lives at this decadent hotel.
Humored yet dark and extremely bizarre at parts, and it doesn't go beyond those descriptions. Cláudio Assis film works as a curious piece that is greatly filmed, with many long take sequences and amazing camera work and movements going through several rooms or showing a view from the ceiling watching the guests down below. And despite all the chaos from the place, business is still conducted there and we wonder how in the world is that possible. Anyway, a highly unusual work but watchable - just could have go without the dead goat being dismembered (yikes). 7/10.
Humored yet dark and extremely bizarre at parts, and it doesn't go beyond those descriptions. Cláudio Assis film works as a curious piece that is greatly filmed, with many long take sequences and amazing camera work and movements going through several rooms or showing a view from the ceiling watching the guests down below. And despite all the chaos from the place, business is still conducted there and we wonder how in the world is that possible. Anyway, a highly unusual work but watchable - just could have go without the dead goat being dismembered (yikes). 7/10.
