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A cheap Manhattan hotel glows with mystery and unexpected beauty, its corridors, elevators, rooms, windows, and occasional occupants framed like Edward Hopper tableaux.

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Title	Hotel Monterey (1972)
Runtime	1 hr. 02 min.
Director	Chantal Akerman
Country	Belgium
Studio	Criterion Collection
Genres	Drama
Description	Under Chantal Akerman’s watchful eye, a cheap Manhattan hotel glows with mystery and unexpected beauty, its corridors, elevators, rooms, windows, and occasional occupants framed like Edward Hopper tableaux.

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Unless you like staring at people in hotels for an extremely long amount of time, this movie is pretty much a waste. There's nothing mysterious or great about this movie. If you're looking for something like that, you'd probably have a better time watching a movie with an actual plot.

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Probably not, but it would be a start. Anyone with a camera could do this, and I'm not sure how differently it would turn out, provided that the anyone isn't blind. All this really seems to be, is proof that Chantal Akerman had access to a movieola. The film description talks about how this hotel glows with mystery etc., but all I see is badly lit shots of a rundown hotel in Manhattan. Bottom line here is, don't even think about wasting your time on this.

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I started watching Hotel Monterey with low expectations, given the film synopsis. Very quickly, though, I was captured by the long takes and the rhythm of the camera. I felt as if the film had given me entrance into another world, where I was allowed to look long and deeply, without concern about rudeness, into both public and private views of the hotel and its inhabitants. The camera seems to find the most interesting view easily and naturally - every shot was beautiful If you can let yourself slow down enough to really see this, you will be rewarded.

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