Natalie Portman, Jason Schwartzman

A short epilogue of one heartbreaking history of love and the prologue of the travel told in The Darjeeling Limited.

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R, 13 min.

Directed by: Wes Anderson

Release Date: August 28, 2007

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  • September 2, 2009
    Beautifully shot, Hotel Chevalier is a nice prologue to The Darjeeling Limited. Natalie Portman's Bottom makes a nice special guest appearance! ;o)
  • April 20, 2009
    "Whatever happens in the end, I don't wanna lose you as my friend."

    A short prologue of one heartbreaking history of love and the prologue of the travel told in "The Darjeeling Limited"

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    Design...( read more)ed as a semi-independent prelude to "The Darjeeling Limited", "Hotel Chevalier" proves that ten minutes of Wes Anderson's wizardry are worth more than many another big-budget director's feature-length film. It's a study in the pain and the lust only love can bring, as well as a variation of Anderson's trademark motif, control. Where "The Darjeeling Limited" bubbles over with substance abuse, poisonous snakes, restroom romps, brotherly affection and fatal accidents, "Hotel Chevalier" is a quiet and slightly eerie two-character mini drama set in a lavish Merchant-Ivory style suite. The suite's sole resident is a reclusive control-freak writer in a long-distance relationship (Jason Schwartzman). We watch as he half enjoys, half endures a surprise visit by his control-freak girlfriend (Natalie Portman). Is she a woman of flesh and blood, or is she just an imaginary incarnation of the jet-setting girl from "Where do you go to my lovely", the song Peter keeps playing on his portable stereo? There's no knowing what's real and what isn't in Anderson's paper moon world. But the importance of fact and fiction fades as she reclines on the bed and has Peter take off her spike-heeled boots. It's the most emotionally and sexually loaded scene I have seen in a long time, like a 20-second tango. It seems some of Natalie Portman's best work is done in shorts set in Paris. Remember Tom Tykwer's "True"?
  • July 25, 2008
    Loved the performances (big fan of both Portman and Schwartzman) but for a Wes Anderson creation, it was dissapointing, as was the movie that followed it.
  • July 17, 2008
    Not bad for a short film.
  • July 7, 2008
    Its great to see what he did to get ready
  • October 29, 2009
    Modern romance as one poet quoted.Strongly tied with vast avant-garde sentiments,this candy short by Anderson speaks louder than his feature film does.Salty taste...
  • October 15, 2009
    I got to see Natalie Portmans phanny!!!! I sound like a perv, yeah, I know, but who cares, she is hot. Although, I don't like the short hair. She was hottest in Star Wars.
  • September 26, 2009
    High praises to Portman for showing her naked butt. It kind of fills in Schwartzman's character in The Darjeeling Limited.
  • September 20, 2009
    Simply one of the saddest and most poetic short films of the 21st century.
  • August 10, 2009
    This was just really interesting to me, I loved the implied history of this films little universe (one of the best parts of Darjeeling) and the unique dialogue. The beautiful production design doesn't hurt either.

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