Hotel America
Synopsis
Hélène, a distracted pill-popping anesthetist, almost runs down Gilles one evening on a Biarritz street. She is still numb from the drowning death earlier that year of her lover, a visionary architect. Gilles presses for a relationship, then backs away, deciding she could never love someone of lower class and limited prospects. But she does fall in love with him and gradually her depression eases. As she heals, he becomes obsessed with her lover's talents and his own limitations, behaving bizarrely and pushing her away. How these conflicts play out becomes the movie's story.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (13)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Sara Films
- Associate producer : Films A2
- Film exports/foreign sales : StudioCanal Films Limited
- French distribution : Parafrance
Full credits (14)
- Screenwriters : André Téchiné, Gilles Taurand
- Music Composer : Philippe Sarde
- Assistant directors : Alain Centonze, Charlotte Trench, Bruno François-Boucher
- Editor : Claudine Merlin
- Sound Recordist : Paul Lainé
- Costume designer : Christian Gasc
- Producer : Alain Sarde
- Production manager : Christine Gozlan
- Continuity supervisor : Michèle Andreucci
- Foley artist : Jean-Pierre Lelong
- Director of Photography : Bruno Nuytten
- Make-up Artist : Jacky Reynal
- Sound Mixer : Jacques Maumont
- Unit Production Manager : François Menny
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Psychological drama
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Yes
Box-office & releases
News & awards
Selections (2)
Cesar Awards - French film industry awards
France, 1982
Best Actress : Catherine Deneuve
Best Supporting Actress : Sabine Haudepin
About
This film marked a turning point in Téchiné’s career, anchoring his work from then on in a more realistic universe from the previous romantic one. For the first time Téchiné let his actors improvise, a practice he has continued ever since, adjusting his scripts to accommodate the new material. “From Hotel des Amériques onwards my films are no longer genre films,” he said. “My inspiration is no longer drawn from the cinema”. This film also started a long productive collaboration with Catherine Deneuve. "There are some directors who are more feminine than others, like Téchiné, like Truffaut. They are an exceptional gift to actresses," Deneuve said about their collaboration.
Source : Wikipedia.
