The paths of guests and employees cross at the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz: A chambermaid experiences financial difficulties. A guest has been robbed. A thief is caught. An assistant cook is promoted to waiter. And there’s no shortage of love in this small world of the great Hotel Palace. Keeping an orderly eye over proceedings is the hotel’s beautiful patron, whose heart is in the right place.
Emil Berna, Leonard Steckel
Director
Paul Hubschmid
Fredy
Käthe Gold
Emilie, Zimmermädchen
Anne-Marie Blanc
Inhaberin des Hotels
Claude Farell
Madame Perrat
Liliana Tellini
Speranza, Zimmermädchen
Gustav Knuth
Loosli, Kellermeister
Emil Hegetschweiler
Staub, Zimmerkellner
Zarli Carigiet
Giachem, Konditor
Max Haufler
Hunziker, Oberheizer
Alfred Rasser
Leblanc, Küchenchef
Margrit Rainer
Hilde Staub, Telefonistin
Some people’s first introduction to Mira Nair might be as New York mayor Zohran Mamdani’s mom. But with her insightful direction of 1991’s Mississippi Masala, Nair shows how much she deserves to be known as an artist. Delivering a nuanced portrait of a romance between a Black man and an Indian woman living in the South, Nair explores the complications each character faces, giving both equal weight.
An enchanted school for young heroes and villains brings the battle between good and evil in this fantasy movie.
The film exhibits a respect for the craft and an empathy for human tribulations that have historically been ignored.
The film is bogged down with one-off rain monster threats that always come to a quick and undramatic end
I highly recommend Kill Bill: Volume 2. In classic Tarantino fashion, specific sections of the film are a tad too long, but overall, it’s a wonderful piece of escapist fiction.
Hokum is an enjoyable horror film that will probably get a little under your skin, but it isn’t the tour de force that you might be expecting.