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Hotel America 1981 123movies

Hotel America 1981 123movies

Dec. 02, 198195 Min.
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Watch: Hôtel des Amériques 1981 123movies, Full Movie Online – Hélène, a distracted pill-popping anesthetist, almost runs down Gilles one evening on a Biarritz street. She is still numb from the drowning death earlier that year of her lover, a visionary architect. Gilles presses for a relationship, then backs away, deciding she could never love someone of lower class and limited prospects. But she does fall in love with him and gradually her depression eases. As she heals, he becomes obsessed with her lover’s talents and his own limitations, behaving bizarrely and pushing her away. How these conflicts play out becomes the movie’s story..
Plot: Helene, a pill-addicted anesthesiologist, is mourning the death of her boyfriend when, through a car accident she causes, she chances to meet the lethargic Gilles, a young man who lives for free at his mother’s hotel. Gilles pursues Helene romantically, and she eventually softens up. Gilles, however, is also devoted to Bernard, a petty crook who revels in mugging gay men. All three struggle with relationships that seem to be going nowhere.
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Sleepwalking through their roles…
Wow, did I have a bad night. I usually love French films and was excited to watch a DVD with two of Catherine Deneuve’s films (“Le Sauvage” and “Hôtel des Amériques”). Amazingly, both of the films were among the least interesting films I have seen in some time–mostly because of the terrible writing. This is sad because one of the big reasons I usually prefer French films to recent Hollywood films is the writing, but in these two films they simply created characters that were hard to care about or understand.

Deneuve plays Hélène, a lady who obviously is in mourning for a dead lover. She can’t get on with her life. However, when she meets Gilles (Patrick Dewaere), they become lovers–even though there really is absolutely no chemistry between them…none!

As for Gilles, he seems very moody and is good friends with a guy who loves to steal and beat up gay people. Now this could have been interesting, as this gay protest could have been an indication that Gilles and his male friend were lovers or harbored sexual feelings for each other. This may have turned off some viewers, but it really would have seemed plausible and interesting. Instead, however, you just assume that since Gilles likes such an evil man that he, too, is a jerk. And, through the course of the film, he does nothing to change that opinion. In fact, as the film progresses he gets moodier and moodier–until you are ready to shout at the screen for him to get over it and stop sulking and be a man!

Deneuve’s character is rather interesting at first. The idea of her having all this emotional baggage and being constricted when it came to love was interesting. However, she is so distant and so moody that you wonder why Gilles puts up with her. Sure, he’s pretty but this is the only thing he could see in her. Heck, their sex lives weren’t even good…so why does he stay? And, why doesn’t she either grow or simply reject him completely because she refuses to give in to love? Instead, she and the audience are stuck in limbo. While the movie is only 93 minutes long, it seems like a lifetime, as these two just exist and the relationship is stuck in neutral–and there is absolutely no coherent reason for them to be together in the first place or remain together.

Overall, impossible to believe and dull. I can think of many, many films Ms. Deneuve made that are better…and none, off the top of my head, that were worse.

Review By: planktonrules
Somewhat Lost
This very fine film by one of France’s great directors seems to be less seen than many others of his cinematic work. I am going to state frankly why. It deals with the ambiguity of relationships, and heterosexuals seem to prefer his films where they can identify with more ‘ family ‘ subject matter. Putting my neck out further I also consider this is his finest film, along with ‘ Quand on a 17 Ans ‘ ( Being 17 ). Both are somehow ‘ lost ‘ to popular audiences and the ambiguity of relationships, both heterosexual and homosexual are ingrained in both of them. In the latter a homosexual relationship is fought for, literally at times, and in ‘ Hotel des Ameriques ‘ both forms of sexuality struggle and fight to survive. The story has been related by other reviewers here, and I do not want to waste time in going over it. The film is set in Biarritz which in my opinion is a somewhat no man’s land place, and two people superbly played by Catherine Deneuve and Patrick Dewaere ( a great loss to world cinema ) struggle to come to terms with their emotional and physical attraction. There is an undercurrent of bisexuality in Dewaere’s character, and he is torn between her and his male friend who he seems to love as much as her. This battleground of feeling is fought out in transitory places; a lot in the hotel of the title, which in itself is struggling with change. The other places are an abandoned large house owned by Deneuve, and the apartment she is renting. Nowhere is ‘ home ‘ and the loss of place is as acute as the risk of failure in commitment to another person. As for the film itself it is classical in structure, and exquisitely filmed, and there is a scene in the hotel of the title which encapsulated the divisions of place and people. The hotel has been changed from its simplicity as an ordinary and friendly place to a more ‘ American ‘ style, and its quietly frightening opening party is set against a fake palm tree wall paper with the guests dancing to a waltz. The power of this scene is overwhelming and a stroke of genius on Techine’s part. Two worlds collide here just like the worlds of the characters, and in the end we see coldly and honestly how fragile all of us are when it comes to overcoming repressed and dangerous feelings. The palm trees and the waltz show to me the disjunctions in life, and how false so-called ‘ romantic ‘ love can be. This film is filled with fear of loss, and the fight against depression. It has no optimism in the usual sense of the term, and in its way it rejects the fake American cinema of ‘ happy endings ‘ as much as it rejects the newly made over American style hotel. The waltz scene says it all and for those who like easy resolutions this film will not work, plus the fact that what we call heterosexual ‘ normality ‘ is questioned and undermined. An absolute masterpiece.
Review By: jromanbaker

Other Information:

Original Title Hôtel des Amériques
Release Date 1981-12-02
Release Year 1981

Original Language fr
Runtime 1 hr 35 min (95 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, Romance
Director André Téchiné
Writer Gilles Taurand, André Téchiné
Actors Catherine Deneuve, Patrick Dewaere, Etienne Chicot
Country France
Awards 3 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm

Hotel America 1981 123movies
Hotel America 1981 123movies
Hotel America 1981 123movies
Hotel America 1981 123movies
Original title Hôtel des Amériques
TMDb Rating 6.28 50 votes

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