Country of Hotels
Synopsis
A surreal and blackly comic journey down the hotel's lonely corridors and behind its out-dated furnishings and stained surfaces. The story plunging into the ever-turning carousel of haunted lives who check in and out of the establishment. Adulterers, lonely businessmen, and hustlers grapple with their demons whilst a prying, occasionally sinister hotel staff always seems to be within earshot. Inside this hotel the mundane transforms into an implement of threat; a faulty light fixture appears to contain a hidden camera; a heating unit whispers to guests with increasing menace; a television set randomly flips channels, displaying TV shows which reveal a guest's secret paranoid fantasies; and a stray look into the bathroom mirror becomes the quickest way to disprove your existence.
Details
- Year
- 2018
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 145 mins
- Director
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Julio Maria Martino 1st Feature
- Producer
- Saba Kia
- Executive Producer
- Emily Corcoran
- Editor
- Peter Allinson
- Screenwriter
- David Hauptschein
- Director of Photography
- Stefano Slocovich
- Production Designer
- Mike McLoughlin
- Sound
- Ed Rousseau
- Composer
- Christos Fanaras
- Principal cast
- Michael Laurence, Matthew Leitch, Siobhan Hewlett, Charles Pike
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Saba Kia
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