Product Review

Welcome to the Hotel Splendide and a surreal feast of repression, liberation and love starring Daniel Craig (Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, The Golden Compass) and Toni Collette (About A Boy, Little Miss Sunshine, In Her Shoes).

Set on a remote island, the film follows the Blanche family's attempt to maintain a crumbling, dilapidated hotel and health spa following the death of the family matriarch.

Under his mother's tutelage, Chef Ronald Blanche (Craig) has been instructed in the art of a healthy regime, based on boiling everything within an inch of its life. His sister Cora runs a treatment room where services consist solely of mud baths and enemas, and Desmond Blanche, determined to keep the spirit of his mother alive, is leading the hotel into ruinous straits. Into this bizarre universe wanders Kath (Collette), Ronald's former sous-chef and girlfriend, who five years before had left the island under mysterious circumstances. Behind the peeling facade a gastronomical competition ensues, and as tensions and emotions mount, the hotel takes on a life of its own.

HOTEL SPLENDIDE screened in the Panorama section at Berlin Film Festival and in official selection at Edinburgh, Sitges and Melbourne film festivals;

AWARDS won Best Cinematography & Citizen Kane Award for Best Directorial Revelation at Sitges in Spain.

BONUS FEATURE: Award-winning short film THE SIN EATER (approx 11 mins) from director Terence Gross. The short won best short film Atlantic Film Festival; Eastman Kodak Award at Locarno Film Festival and screened in the short film section of Telluride film festival.

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