Hotel Chevalier (2007)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.2/10   

Director:

Wes Anderson

Guionista:

Wes Anderson (written by)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

26 octubre 2007 (USA)

Género:

Corto | Drama | Música | Romance

Plot:

A short prologue of one heartbreaking history of love and the prologue of the travel told in _Darjeeling Limited, The (2007)_ .

Plot Keywords:

Prologue | Balcony | Hotel | Bed | View

Comentarios de los usuarios:

like a quick little short story, as Anderson puts it, the emotional subtleties make it work so well

Reparto

Jason Schwartzman	...	Jack Whitman
Natalie Portman	...	Jack's Girlfriend
Michael Castejon	...	Waiter

También conocida como:

Part 1 of 'The Darjeeling Limited' (USA) (subtitle)

MPAA:

Rated R for some language and sexual content.

Duración:

13 min

País:

USA | France

Idioma:

Inglés | Francés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

USA:R | Singapore:NC-16 | Ireland:15A | Sweden:11 | South Korea:15

Locaciones de Filmación:

Hotel Raphaël, Paris, France

Compañía:

Fox Searchlight Pictures

Trivialidades:

According to director Wes Anderson, the movie was filmed in two and a half days. The film was also edited entirely on his personal computer.

Citas:

Ex-girlfriend: Whatever happens in the end, I don't wanna lose you as my friend.
Jack: I promise, I will never be your friend. No matter what. Ever.

Conexiones de Película:

Apariciones Stalag 17 (1953)

Banda de Sonido:

Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défurte - for Piano

like a quick little short story, as Anderson puts it, the emotional subtleties make it work so well

Hotel Chevalier is the kind of thing Wes Anderson could've written in his sleep- or for that matter written in his sleep while on the plane from the US to France to shoot in two days and edit on his computer. But in such a quick burst of minor creativity he has created a stark, amusing and tragic little situation that makes clearer (if not totally clear) the disconnect between Jack (Schwartzmann's character from Darjeeling Limited) and the 'ex-girlfriend' (Portman, with her V for Vendetta cut coming back in and her attitude like that of a pure b***ch). At first Jack has no idea she's coming, by the long pauses they have (albeit he asks why she pauses so long, when he paused longer), and orders a grilled cheese sandwich. She arrives. She brushes her teeth. She decides against going into a bath Jack's specially prepared- as in Darjeeling we see the obsessive-control side to the Whitman family via the IPOD machine playing the song- and instead they go into a very 'French' kind of torturous love scene.

It's erotic in what isn't shown; one might expect this to finally be *the* one, for skin-flick fans anyway, where Portman goes nude. She does, by the way, but tastefully in the Anderson sense- we're not getting the wacky nudity of the girl from Life Aquatic who never has a shirt on, or the lesbian girlfriend of Paltrow in that one shot in Tenenbaums. By the end, it doesn't make any grand statement about love or love in a hotel room or Paris, but in a self-contained way Anderson's created a mini-masterwork of emotional frustration in the midst of crazy lust. And, by a stroke of something of a quasi-in-joke, like one of the 'brilliant' short stories that the character Jack writes that are 'fictional' though never really at the same time.