Film screening
Hotel
Stadtkino Basel
Klostergasse
5, 4051 Basel
"Irene starts her job as a receptionist at a renowned mountain hotel.
Event details
"Irene starts work as a receptionist at a renowned mountain hotel. She soon discovers that her predecessor has mysteriously disappeared - Irene's own fate begins to interweave with that of her predecessor - the hotel and its staff playing a sinister role. Soon Irene finds herself threatened by a mysterious danger that she desperately tries to escape."
Austrian Film Institute
"Once into the forest and out again: withHotel Jessica Hausner achieves a double feat: on the one hand, a European horror film of an abysmalness, demonicity and presence that is unparalleled in contemporary cinema and, by comparison, exposes other films like "Antibodies" or "Tatoo" as limp formalisms and cheap Hollywood ingratiation. On the other hand, it reconciles the genre with the auteur film: there is horror after all, which is aware of the European horror tradition and does not insult the intelligence of its audience."
Rüdiger Suchsland, June 23, 2006, telepolis
"My point was that someone who sees the film can suspect that there really is something else behind the surface of things, and it does. What that other is, that can't have a name or a face. I feel like what it's really about is between the images."
Jessica Hausner on "Hotel" in an interview with Austrian Films, interviewed by Karin Schiefer, 2004.
Contributors and additional information:
Austria/Germany 2004
82 min. color. DCP. D/e
Director: Jessica Hausner
Screenplay: Jessica Hausner
Cinematography: Martin Gschlacht
Editing: Karina Ressler
Music: Erik Mischijew, Marc Hurtado, Matz Müller
With: Franziska Weisz, Birgit Minichmayr, Marlene Steeruwitz
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
Austrian Film Institute
"Once into the forest and out again: withHotel Jessica Hausner achieves a double feat: on the one hand, a European horror film of an abysmalness, demonicity and presence that is unparalleled in contemporary cinema and, by comparison, exposes other films like "Antibodies" or "Tatoo" as limp formalisms and cheap Hollywood ingratiation. On the other hand, it reconciles the genre with the auteur film: there is horror after all, which is aware of the European horror tradition and does not insult the intelligence of its audience."
Rüdiger Suchsland, June 23, 2006, telepolis
"My point was that someone who sees the film can suspect that there really is something else behind the surface of things, and it does. What that other is, that can't have a name or a face. I feel like what it's really about is between the images."
Jessica Hausner on "Hotel" in an interview with Austrian Films, interviewed by Karin Schiefer, 2004.
Contributors and additional information:
Austria/Germany 2004
82 min. color. DCP. D/e
Director: Jessica Hausner
Screenplay: Jessica Hausner
Cinematography: Martin Gschlacht
Editing: Karina Ressler
Music: Erik Mischijew, Marc Hurtado, Matz Müller
With: Franziska Weisz, Birgit Minichmayr, Marlene Steeruwitz
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
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