Hotel Monterey

Hotel Monterey

By Chantal Akerman

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 1989-07-11
  • Advisory Rating: NR
  • Runtime: 1h 3min
  • Director: Chantal Akerman
  • Production Company: Chant
  • Production Country: Belgium, France
  • iTunes Price: USD 9.99
  • iTunes Rent Price: USD 3.99
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Under Chantal Akerman’s watchful eye, a cheap Manhattan hotel glows with mystery and unexpected beauty, its corridors, elevators, rooms, windows, and occasional occupants framed like Edward Hopper tableaux. Filmed over the course of fifteen hours, from evening to dawn, with cinematographer and frequent collaborator Babette Mangolte’s carefully controlled camera gradually making its way from the lamplit lobby to the rooftop overlooking an awakening city, this radical, silent experiment in duration stands as one of Akerman’s most arresting formal achievements, collapsing time and charging the quotidian space it surveys with an eerie unreality.

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