21º Mostra Internacional de Cinema Competition New Filmakers
SELECT HOTEL

France   

Select HotelNathalie is twenty years old. She leads a life with all of the grace of a night butterfly, as if no one could detain her. Under cover of looks and lights, she will surrender her body for any loose change.

Tof, her brother, offers her protection with absolute love, tenderness and understanding, all of which gives her the strength to live. They are but two children in the midst of a lost world. Just as Brecht characters, they live the tragedies of common people, in a day-to-day life made up of mistakes and trouble.

Pierre, a shoemaker tormented by Nathalie's universe, lives a unique instant of a rare and precious encounter. They will meet in the Seleto Hotel where the rooms lined with wall paper reminiscent of the bars in a prison, conceal the poetry of an illicit world.

 

     Director

DIRECTOR: Laurent Bouhnik
SCREENPLAY: Laurent Bouhnik
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Gilles Henry
EDITION: Jacqueline Mariani, Clémence Bielov
MUSIC: Jérôme Coullet
CAST: Julie Gayet, Jean-Michel Fete, Serge Blumenthal, Marc Andréoni
PRODUCER: Laurent Bouhnik
FESTIVALS: Cannes, Toronto, Rotterdã
PRODUCTION: Climax
WORLD SALES: MK2, 55 rue Traversière, 75012 Paris Tel: 00 33 1 4307-1510 Fax: 00 33 1 4341-3230
ORIGINAL TITLE: Select Hotel
   Col., 105 min., 1996

Laurent Bouhnik

Laurent Bouhnik was born in Paris in 1961. He worked as a cartoon draughtsman and illustrator before he moved on to cinema where he took part in diverse films working with montage. After he produced various short films that were awarded prizes in international festivals, he made his medium film Troubles ou la Journée d'une Femme Ordinaire, presented at the festival cinemas in France at the Cannes/94 Festival. Select Hotel is his first feature.