New Rose Hotel
by Abel Ferrara
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Actor: Annabella Sciorra, Asia Argento, Christopher Walken, John Lurie, Willem DafoeDirector: Abel Ferrara
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.85:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-12-07
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate
Movie Reviews of New Rose Hotel
Movie Review: Abel meets his match in Asia Argento
Summary: 3 Stars
New Rose Hotel is a flawed and often times confusing film from Abel Ferrara that won't leave you sure of much. One thing that you will be certain of though is how Abel could have fallen for leading lady Asia Argento. Not only does she look incredibly sexy in this one but her acting is very strong throughout. She is easily the best character and most entertaining to watch in a film that also stars Christopher Walken and Willem DeFoe. Those guys do well also but Asia's character has the best arc and changes the most. The time is the future and corporations are trying to steal the top scientists away from rival firms. Two such hunters are Fox and X played by Walken and DeFoe. They devise a scheme to hire a struggling prostitue named Sandii (Argento) to seduce a Japanese scientist and get him to leave his current corporation as well as family to come work for their corporation . In the process the lifelong friends will pocket a few million bucks that they are willing to cut Sandii in on. Of course along the way one of them falls for her and the two begin a steamy love affair that threatens to jeopardize the deal and their friendship. Even though the story often doesn't make sense it follows a basic film noir plot. Two friends need to steal or get information on some mysterious guy and figuring that an attractive woman can get the information better they hire her often while the more sensitive of the men falls in love with her and double crosses ensue. For the first hour or so of the film things are left unanswered as if Abel is only showing us a portion of the scene. Indeed he is as we learn in the film's best act the last twenty minutes when we find out what really has been going on. I found this part of the film to be the most exciting and involving even though what preceded it was often times not that great. Anyway Walken does a good job of playing the old thief who fears that his young accomplice is going to leave him and their life of crime to take up with their beautiful new partner. His performance was very good I thought and him and DeFoe have a very humorous scene together that starts off scripted and then veers into improv and ends with the both of them laughing hysterically. This scene was a nice Abel touch just throwing anything into his uneven film. Many of the people who worked on Ferrara's The Funeral are in this one including brief roles from Annabella Sciorra and Gretchen Mol. This film also benefits from a great Schooly D score. So of interest for Abel fans but mainly recommended for Asia Argento fans since she looks absolutely amazing and her acting is just as good.
Summary of New Rose Hotel
Abel Ferrara's adaptation of William Gibson's cyberpunk story (from the short-story collection Burning Chrome) is quite faithful to the source, which may explain why it bypassed cinemas almost completely to emerge on video. Gibson's story takes place entirely in flashback as its hero shuffles through the events that brought him to the tiny shoebox of a room in the New Rose Hotel, on the run and out of ideas. Ferrara winds up in the same place, but first plays out his story for us to see... sort of. Industrial headhunters Christopher Walken, limping through the movie with a cane and a rumpled white suit like an emaciated Sydney Greenstreet, and Willem Dafoe, his jaded, tired partner, hatch a plan to lure a genetic-sciences genius from one corporation to another for a $100 million payoff. The key to their plan is seductive bar girl and part-time prostitute Asia Argento, a flirting chanteuse with whom Dafoe falls in love. Set in a grimy technological future of generic cosmopolitan cities, the characters wander fluorescent mazes of bland malls, murky bars, and faceless hotels, a Blade Runner future without the spectacle. Apart from brief, blurry video-camera surveillance, the entire operation occurs offscreen, reported through conversations and phone calls, and even Ferrara fans may find the murky, dawdling narrative and cerebral conclusion disappointing. But the tech-noir conspiracy gives way to Ferrara's real story, the collision of the dreamers and the shadowy world they live in. --Sean AxmakerAction & Adventure DVD Video
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