Hotel Chevalier

Hotel Chevalier is a 2007 AmericanFrench short film written and directed by Wes Anderson and released in 2007. Starring Jason Schwartzman and Natalie Portman as former lovers who reunite in a Paris hotel room, the 13minute film acts as a prologue to Andersons 2007 feature The Darjeeling Limited. It was shot on location in a Parisian hotel by a small crew and selffinanced by Anderson, who initially intended it to be a standalone work. Its first showing was at the Venice Film Festival premire of the feature film on September 2, 2007, and it made its own debut later that month at Apple Stores in four American cities. The day after its premire, it was made available for free from the iTunes Store for one month, during which it was downloaded more than 500,000 times. The film garnered nearuniversal critical acclaim from reviewers who compared it favorably with The Darjeeling Limited and praised its richness, poignancy, and careful construction.

The man is again lying on the bed, now in a gray suit. Hearing a knock, he starts the song playing again before opening the door to a woman Natalie Portman. After staring at him for several seconds, the woman breaks the silence by asking what music is playing. Receiving no response, she steps into the room and presents the man with a bouquet of flowers. When she moves to kiss him on the mouth, he turns his head away and they embrace instead. He closes the door and asks how she found him she replies that it wasnt actually that hard. She moves around the room browsing through his possessions, brushes her teeth with his toothbrush and declines to take the bath he had run for her.Stepping back into the bedroom, the woman turns to face the man and confronts him, asking slowly what the fuck is going on? He motions to her to join him on the bed and at her prompting, he reveals in the ensuing conversation that he has been living in the hotel room for more than a month, and that he had left to escape their relationship. They lie back on the bed looking at one another before being interrupted by the arrival of room service. Once alone again, the two kiss and the man begins to undress the woman. They have an uncomfortable exchange about not having slept with other people and when he notices bruises on her arm after undressing her further, the woman chooses not to comment on them. Lying on top of him, she tells the man that she does not want to lose his friendship, that she loves him and never meant to hurt him. He responds coldly that he will never be her friend, but holds her when she embraces him. Where Do You Go To My Lovely? starts again and the man offers to show the woman his view of Paris. ........

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