09.28.07
Hotel Chevalier
Why does it take 70 minutes to download a 13 minute movie from iTunes? This is baffling to me.
Anyway, I downloaded and watched Hotel Chevalier in eager anticipation of Darjeeling Limited. I sort of wanted to squeal with delight about ‘DL’ but this short put a bit of a damper on my enthusiasm.
But guess what? Natalie Portman is a little hip-y. Totally sexy, still. Like sexier than anything, but more bottom heavy than I expected. You know, because she is naked in this movie.
So, I really thought there would be more too this, somehow.
It was very Wes Anderson-y. It was very pretty (not just the Naked Natalie parts) and a tiny bit funny but I didn’t feel the spark that I wanted to feel. Like I knew it was supposed to be about 2 people that broke up and then meet up again but I never felt like the stakes were high enough.
I don’t think I’m explaining this well.
Regardless, I think it’s a good decision on the part of Fox to not show this in the theatre before ‘DL’ because it might turn people off (in a movie sense, not a Naked Natalie sense, because that might turn people on…although, she does have socks on if I recall, and I’m not sure how I feel about that. Do you think she fucked Wes Anderson?)