- Actors: Helene Fillieres, Julie Gayet, Anouk Aimee, Laurent Lucas
- Directors: Brice Cauvin
- Format: PAL
- Language French
- Subtitles: English
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.77:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: 15
- Studio: SODA
- DVD Release Date: 28 April 2008
- Run Time: 90 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- ASIN: B0015B04HC
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 50,152 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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While waiting to catch a train from paris to Venice, French couple Phillippe and Marion pick up a bag left behind by a courtly, middle-aged gentleman of Arab origin. Inside, they find neatly bound bundles of foreign currency; on the tag, it reads 'Hotel Haribati.' Unsettled by the event, they postpone their trip and stay in Paris; but when Marion collects her film from the developer's the reel is inexplicably filled with shots of canals, vaporetti, crowded piazzas... and suddenly, terrifyingly, their whole world seems to have turned upside-down. In the manner of Michael Haneke's Hidden, Dominik Moll's Lemming or Emmanuel Carrerre's La Moustache, Hotel Haribati observes the nightmarish yet sometimes viciously funny collapse of a bourgeois family unit at the hands of the resonantly irrational
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Earning frequent comparisons to the finer work of David Lynch for its defiantly unpredictable and enigmatic narrative twists, neophyte director Brice Cauvin's political thriller Hotel Harabati opens at a Parisian train depot, with a European couple in their mid-thirties, Philippe (Laurent Lucas) and Marion (Helene Fillieres, waiting to journey to Venice. Without substantial explanation, they promptly retrieve a suitcase that doesn't belong to them; labeled with the words "tel Harabati" (or 'Hotel Harabati'), it contains a massive amount of neatly-rolled foreign currency. They decide impulsively to skip their Venetian tour and hearken back to the City of Lights, but deceive kith and kin, fabricating accounts of Venice to Philippe's mother Nelly (screen legend Anouk Aimee) . In time, the couple begins to search for new living quarters for themselves and their two little boys; open talk of the bag dissipates, yet Philippe's paranoia mounts, particularly given the discussions of neighborhood bombings on the local news and sightings of an unsavory character who exudes a menacing aura - and who may or may not be connected with the suitcase. Cauvin co-authored the original script with Jerome Beaujour and Pierre Schoeller; Julie Gayet (Les Gens qui s'aiment) and Anthony Roth Costanzo (A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries) co-star. ...Hotel Harabati ( De particulier à particulier )
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Hotel Harabati is one of those films you won't get the first time round, it needs to be watched a few times to get the jist of what's going on. Phillipe and Marion are happily married with 2 kids, living in Paris. They're planning an exciting holiday to Venice, they've left the kids with Phillipe's parents and are really looking forward to it; but when they get to the station and meet a guy going the same place, things get complicated. He leaves a bag behind, filled with Israeli Sheqel - so they have to make a moral decision, do they take it on board and hope so see him there? Do they hand it in to police? Or should they just run with it and hope no one ever catches up with them?
This is a strangely compelling movie, with so many twists and turns you'd think you were in a labyrinth - a very tense thriller at times, but with the smoothness of French cinema. There are some strange shots too, with no dialogue and just simply the actor standing there, this is what makes it compelling because you wonder if a word is going to be said.
The soundtrack is amazing on this movie, especially the running theme - 1+1, which I think sounds better on the piano rather than a harpsichord - which sounds so Elizabethan. The photo theme is rather tense but great for the scene. I love the fact that Soda have put the soundtrack as an extra on this, cool.
Phillipe (Laurent Lucas - Lemming) is excellent in this, and he really does have a good presence on screen. Hélène Fillières (Vendredi Soir) is less convincing for me, but I think it's because she's a daydreamer in this movie, and doesn't really seem to be with us. Had to laugh when she did the dubbing - reminds me of when I was a kid hearing American programming in French!
The presentation is good, and the picture and sound are great, at least they've used a decent enough bitrate. The extras are not too bad either, with the soundtrack being the best thing, the film reel isn't as good.
This is well worth the money, it's got a lot of elasticity and is just very compelling.
This is a strangely compelling movie, with so many twists and turns you'd think you were in a labyrinth - a very tense thriller at times, but with the smoothness of French cinema. There are some strange shots too, with no dialogue and just simply the actor standing there, this is what makes it compelling because you wonder if a word is going to be said.
The soundtrack is amazing on this movie, especially the running theme - 1+1, which I think sounds better on the piano rather than a harpsichord - which sounds so Elizabethan. The photo theme is rather tense but great for the scene. I love the fact that Soda have put the soundtrack as an extra on this, cool.
Phillipe (Laurent Lucas - Lemming) is excellent in this, and he really does have a good presence on screen. Hélène Fillières (Vendredi Soir) is less convincing for me, but I think it's because she's a daydreamer in this movie, and doesn't really seem to be with us. Had to laugh when she did the dubbing - reminds me of when I was a kid hearing American programming in French!
The presentation is good, and the picture and sound are great, at least they've used a decent enough bitrate. The extras are not too bad either, with the soundtrack being the best thing, the film reel isn't as good.
This is well worth the money, it's got a lot of elasticity and is just very compelling.
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