KnoxHarrington
09-27-2007, 05:35 PM
If you have ITunes, get your ass into the Apple Music Store and pick up the new short film by Wes Anderson, "Hotel Chevalier". It's about 13 minutes long, and it's absolutely positively free.
It features two characters (who are played by Jason Schwartzman and Natalie Portman, but are not named in this film) who will be in his upcoming feature film "The Darjeeling Limited", and it, apparently, will give some degree of background on their characters (particularly Schwartzman's) that you won't necessarily get from the movie.
It's a very simple, very understated little film. We open with a guy lounging in a Paris hotel room, ordering room service in bad French. As soon as he's done with that call, he gets another one, from a woman who says she'll be there in 30 minutes. The man seems very reluctant to see her -- but, of course, ends up giving her the information she wants, which is his room number.
There's so much packed into the 13 minutes of this film. It really speaks to me of how relationships never die. It really appears to me that they're ex-lovers, and they probably shouldn't be seeing each other, but they will. She'll go all over the world to find him, and he'll always let her.
And there are a couple of lines that so capture the feeling of how sex keeps things lingering long after everything else is gone:
Woman: "If we fuck, I'll feel like shit tomorrow."
Man: "I don't have a problem with that."
Woman: "I don't want anything that happens to keep us from being friends."
Man: "We'll never be friends."
Hot damn, if the real movie is this good, Anderson's made his masterpiece.
Stop reading this post and go get this fucking short. NOW.
It features two characters (who are played by Jason Schwartzman and Natalie Portman, but are not named in this film) who will be in his upcoming feature film "The Darjeeling Limited", and it, apparently, will give some degree of background on their characters (particularly Schwartzman's) that you won't necessarily get from the movie.
It's a very simple, very understated little film. We open with a guy lounging in a Paris hotel room, ordering room service in bad French. As soon as he's done with that call, he gets another one, from a woman who says she'll be there in 30 minutes. The man seems very reluctant to see her -- but, of course, ends up giving her the information she wants, which is his room number.
There's so much packed into the 13 minutes of this film. It really speaks to me of how relationships never die. It really appears to me that they're ex-lovers, and they probably shouldn't be seeing each other, but they will. She'll go all over the world to find him, and he'll always let her.
And there are a couple of lines that so capture the feeling of how sex keeps things lingering long after everything else is gone:
Woman: "If we fuck, I'll feel like shit tomorrow."
Man: "I don't have a problem with that."
Woman: "I don't want anything that happens to keep us from being friends."
Man: "We'll never be friends."
Hot damn, if the real movie is this good, Anderson's made his masterpiece.
Stop reading this post and go get this fucking short. NOW.