2001

Score and Original Song

Music by Anthony Marinelli

& Mike Figgis

DIRECTOR  Mike Figgis

PRODUCERS Mike Figgis, Annie Stewart, and Etchie Stroh

Distributor  Moonstone Entertainment

MUSIC SUPERVISOR Louise Hammar

ACTORS  Rhys Ifans, Saffron Burrows, David Schwimmer, Salma Hayek, Burt Reynolds, Julian Sands, Danny Huston, Lucy Liu, John Malkovich, MMaestro, Chiara Mastroianni, Laura Morante, Ornella Muti, Heathcote Williams, Jason Issacs, Max Beesley

About the Score

Instrumentation  Instrument Sampling, Natural Sounds,

Soloists  Trumpet, Italian Spoken Word, Opera Soprano, Electric & Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Synclavier

Style  European/Eclectic

Song  “Hotel”  (End Credit)

Music by Anthony Marinelli & Mike Figgis

Spoken Word by Valeria Golino

Film Synopsis

Following up on his innovative work Timecode, which featured four stories being told in real time simultaneously, Mike Figgis returns to a modified form of his technique in this film about the tourists, the prostitutes, the tour guides, a killer, and a film crew who frequent the Hungarian Palace Hotel in Venice, Italy. A corrupt Eastern European politician and his moll are visiting the city to complete a shady business deal while Sophie is a high-priced call girl who makes an office in one of the hotel's suites. The film crew is attempting to shoot a Dogma 95-style adaptation of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi only to run into one problem after another. Magic is a professional assassin with a very odd kink - he must have sex immediately after completing a job. Quintus, who abandoned his attempts to get fame and fortune as an actor, is a tour guide with an unusual secret. And then there is maid who not only has the skeleton key to the hotel, but also a habit of snooping. This film was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival.

Reviews/Press

"...HOTEL often has the free-form, surly swing of Charles Mingus's thumping improvisations, including a persuasive self-regard that dares you to look away..."  FULL ARTICLE

-n/a, New York Times