Hotel Chevalier (2007)

Director:

Wes Anderson

Writer:

Wes Anderson (written by)

Release Date:

26 October 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Short | Drama | Music | 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 | View | Depression | Bath | Bed

Cast

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

Also Known As:

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

MPAA:

Rated R for some language and sexual content.

Runtime:

13 min

Country:

USA | France

Language:

English | French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

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

Filming Locations:

Hotel Raphaël, Paris, France

Company:

Fox Searchlight Pictures

Trivia:

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.

Quotes:

Jack: You wanna see my view of Paris?

Movie Connections:

Features Stalag 17 (1953)

Soundtrack:

Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte - for Piano

"Are you running away from me?" "I thought I already did"

I saw The Darjeeling Limited on the big screen (during the 49 Muestra International de Cine back in 2007) and certainly I saw this short film, now that I added to my collection the DVD of the film I saw Hotel Chevalier for the second time. In The Darjeeling Limited the great Bill Murray has a very little appearance, is a great very first scene of the film with Murray but there's nothing that will connect Murray's character with our three main characters that are played by Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman (just that he tried to take the train that our main characters took). Natalie Portman appears less than Murray in Wes Anderson's latest film to date (his next project, Fantastic Mr. Fox, is going to be released on 6 November 2009 in the US), actually she only appears in one sequence for some seconds, she has no dialog, during the whole film, during the time in India she is not present, but only physically.

Here there's nothing very clear, well the reasons are certainly not clear but of cure the actions upon those things that happened are more than clear. Jason Schwartzman is great as Jack Whitman but well I guess those complements would be better in my comment for the feature film. Here is all quite strange once Portman's character arrives to the hotel Chevalier, "what the f*** is going on?" she asks, and the song "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)" (completely unknown by me until I saw this short film, now I carry the soundtrack of The Darjeeling Limited in my iPod) stops just before the first kiss after at least more than a month happens. 10 out of 10