Hotel Chevalier, Wes Anderson’s short film that has caused so much expectation, probably more than the preceding film (The Darjeeling Limited), is finally available in the network. In case you have not heard, the interest of this little film lies in Natalie Portman. She decided to appear nude in this short, then, the rest is history. It has already been reviewed in detail the frames where Nat appears alongside Jason Schwartzman, in a hotel room of the title, doing what we usually do in a hotel room.
Hotel Chevalier originally appeared in iTunes, but only for U.S., immediately there were other links to direct downloads like this, or this one, and now you can see here.
Leo Worstpreviews information that makes me a jump and get to walk across the ceiling. Natalie Portman appears nude in Hotel Chevalier! My beloved Natalie shows her delicate body …! “What the hell is Hotel Chevalier!?
It turns out that ‘Hotel Chevalier’ is the title of a short film by Wes Anderson ( “Life Aquatic”) with the intent it was designed just before his latest film ‘The Darjeeling Limited’. In fact, the short 12 minutes is a prologue to the history of film. So Portman did not appear in the trailer we saw, simply, she does not come in Darjeeling. At least, I say, it was the intention. For some business reason or because he thought his film would not exceed that shown in the short, Anderson turned on his heel and left his good idea, maintained only in the just-ended 64th edition of the Venice Film Festival. Lucky!
This means that we can only see ‘Hotel Chevalier’ when ‘The Darjeeling Limited’ goes on sale on DVD, in an operation similar, relatively speaking, to what happened with ‘Grindhouse’. Or, hopefully, when a good citizen has the opportunity to record it and hang it on the internet. We will put a candle to Kubrick tonight to be fulfilled.
Fulfilment may be reached by many ways, each more effective that putting a candle to Kubrick. You might, for example, dress in a parrot suit and dance before the Westminster Bridge. You might colour your eyebrows purple and sit on a Dachshund. You might even fid fulfilment in following the advice on cereal packets. But to put a candle to a respected though dead film-maker seems excessive and, frankly, indecently egotistic. Unless, of course, he has already reached his fulfilment by putting a candle to you. Mutual incendiarism is a valid life-style choice.
Noël Christian
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