original title:
Hotel
directed by:
cast:
Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Saffron Burrows, Valentina Cervi, Valeria Golino, Salma Hayek, Danny Huston, Ornella Muti, Stefania Rocca, Chiara Mastroianni, Elisabetta Cavallotti, Nicola Farron, Lucy Liu, John Malkovich, Laura Morante, Julian Sands, Rhys Ifans, Burt Reynolds, David Schwimmer
screenplay:
cinematography:
Patrick Alexander Stewart
set design:
costume design:
music:
Mike Figgis, Anthony Marinelli
producer:
production:
Cattleya, MoonStone, Hotel Productions
world sales:
country:
UK/Italy
year:
2001
film run:
93'
format:
colour
festivals & awards:
An American director with starlet in tow, a self-serving Eastern European politician with wife at his side, a hired assassin: at a decadent hotel on the Lido of Venice a varied series of characters and events intertwine to demonstrate that often behind their normal and reassuring facades, people are not quite what they seem to be.