Hotel

Jessica Hausner - 2004
Alright, back to film, and not quite as exciting, but still the work of a master (ess?). The camera keeps a lot more still, apart from some looming horror film moves (and some crack-cuts, with sound) in, that, as in 'Lovely Rita', one feels Hausner is taking the piss out of more than anything. Still using a lot of eyeline matches, there is also a repeated move where we see watching a corridor, than go behind, so at first glance she seems to be watching hereself; a trick of SRS, and rather disquieting.
The again elliptical editing should also be noted. And also the fact that this is starting to really resemeble 'Lourdes'; thematically with religion, the use of nightclubs, conference rooms, people listening to music, but also on the vivid blocks of colours set against pale, uncluttered walls. The lighting here is very different from 'Lovely Rita', back, quite hard (and colourful), side stuff too; this is a film, shot in film. It is still utterly fascinating, gleeful, cock-eyed, deliberately obscure in its refusal of clear genre.