Jackie Raynal
Hotel New York
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Original format 16mm
Year 1980-1984
Language(s) English
Artist(s) Jackie Raynal
Author(s) Jackie Raynal, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Babette Mangolte, Sande Zeig
Subtitles French
Booklet 36 pages (French, English)
Running time 80 min
Films
HOTEL NEW YORK (1984) 52'
NEW YORK STORY (1980) 27'
Description
"One day in New York, I brought my laundry to a small Chinese laundromat. Then I forgot about it for a few weeks. When I went back, the laundromat was gone—the building had been demolished! I was haunted by the idea that my bed sheets had disappeared forever along with the laundromat. This experience was the starting point for the script of Hotel New York. I wanted to write and direct this film to show how ephemeral everything is there. Things change all the time and are immediately replaced, much more quickly than in Europe. The story came from my own experience and impressions as a foreigner. It's a dramatic comedy."
—Jackie Raynal, Libération
"Hotel New York can be seen as the description of a struggle; an immigrant's struggle with her new city and a filmmaker's struggle with her desire to make films within precarious limits. In Hotel New York, Jackie Raynal plays and wins."
— Cahiers du Cinéma