Director
Kitty Green
Composer
Jed Palmer
Cast
Julia Garner, Jessica Henwick, Herbert Nordrum, Hugo Weaving
Edition 2023
91'
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2023
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Thriller
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Dialogue:
English
A nail-biting experience awaits with the nerve-wracking The Royal Hotel as backpackers find themselves caught among the unruly pub-goers. After The Assistant director Kitty Green and actress Julia Garner are here to make you uncomfortable again in this Australian nightmare.
With her gripping fiction debut The Assistant (FFG2020), Australian filmmaker Kitty Green firmly established herself in the thriller genre. For her next endeavor The Royal Hotel she once again puts actress Julia Garner in a tense situation in a toxic male-dominated culture, this time accompanied by Jessica Henwick. Garner and Henwick play American friends who, while backpacking and broke in Australia, take on temporary work at the remote bar of a desolate mining town. Instead of encountering kangaroos, the two mainly interact with the local clientele, reminiscent of the cult classic Wake in Fright. Green sharpens genre conventions and violence in this muscular outback nightmare inspired by the documentary(!) Hotel Coolgardie. Featuring one of everyone's favorite villains, Hugo 'Agent Smith' Weaving. The Royal Hotel will make your blood boil and freeze.
“Kitty Green reunites with The Assistant star Julia Garner in the riveting thriller The Royal Hotel. Garner and Jessica Henwick lead the way with guts and muscle in this unnerving and atmospheric genre exercise. (...) It’s evident Green thinks cinematically in the old-school sense.” - TheWrap
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Credits
Directors
Kitty Green
Composers
Jed Palmer
Cast
Julia Garner, Jessica Henwick, Herbert Nordrum, Hugo Weaving
Scenario
Kitty Green, Oscar Redding
Director of Photography
Michael Latham
Editors
Kasra Rassoulzadegan
Producers
Iain Canning, Kath Shelper, Emile Sherman, Liz Watts
Production studios
See Saw Films
Distributor
Universal Pictures USA
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Dialogue
English
Countries of production
Australia, United Kingdom
Year
2023
Filmography
Kitty Green
Ukraine Is Not a Brothel (2013), The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul (short, 2015), Casting JonBenet (2017), The Assistant (2019), The Royal Hotel (2023)
