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Hotel Chevalier

Hotel Chevalier
A young white couple stand on a hotel balcony looking out to the left of the frame. Only their upper bodies are shown. The man, who has shoulder-length hair and a trim moustache and who is wearing a grey suit, has his left arm around the short-haired woman, who is clad in a yellow hotel bathrobe and has her right hand on his shoulder.
Promotional film poster
Directed byWes Anderson
Written byWes Anderson
Starring
CinematographyRobert Yeoman
Edited byVincent Marchand
Music byPascal Rogé
Production
companies
  • American Empirical Pictures
  • Première Heure
Distributed byFox Searchlight Pictures
Release dates
Running time
13 minutes
Countries
  • United States
  • France[1]
LanguageEnglish

Hotel Chevalier is a 2007 short film written and directed by Wes Anderson. Starring Jason Schwartzman and Natalie Portman as former lovers who reunite in a Paris hotel room, the 13-minute film acts as a prologue to Anderson's 2007 feature The Darjeeling Limited. It was shot on location in a Parisian hotel by a small crew and self-financed by Anderson, who initially intended it to be a stand-alone work. Its first showing was at the Venice Film Festival première of the feature film on September 2, 2007, and it made its own debut later that month at Apple Stores in four U.S. cities.

The day after the film's première, it was made freely available from the iTunes Store for one month, during which time it was downloaded more than 500,000 times. The film garnered acclaim from reviewers, who compared it favorably to The Darjeeling Limited and praised its richness, poignancy, and careful construction.

  1. ^ "Hotel Chevalier (2005)". Film & TV Database. London: British Film Institute. Archived from the original on January 17, 2009. Retrieved April 17, 2012.

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