Bunker Palace Hôtel |
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France • 1989 • 95m •
   • Directed by: Enki Bilal. • Starring: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Carole Bouquet, Maria Schneider, Roger Dumas, Yann Collette, Philippe Morier-Genoud, Hans Meyer, Benoît Régent, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jezabelle Amato, Svetozar Cvetkovic, Snezana Niksic, Rada Djuricin. • Music by: Arnaud Devos, Philippe Eidel.      In an imaginary dictature of a futuristic world, rebellion has broken out. The men in power scramble to the Bunker Palace Hotel, a bunker built long ago for just this kind of contingency. But a rebel spy sneaks in, and although her nature is very quickly suspected, she is left to observe the raving of the decadent power class, who keeps wondering what happened to their leader, who has failed to show up.
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Review:
It includes a story line about someone needing to pass a secret message on to someone else, a message which is of only incidental importance to the things going on in this aptly named bunker palace. As the moment comes for the message to be passed arrives it is finally spoken. In the print I saw the message was in a different language and no translation was offered. An acquaintance of mine told me that he would be seeing Mr. Bilal at a comic book convention in Sarajevo and he would ask him about this message. Apparently he failed to ask or didn't get an answer. He, my acquaintance, did say that it sounded like Hungarian to him but he speaks Serbian and English so he isn't sure. If you ever find out, post it here. It reminds me of Kafka's story about the messenger and the castle guard.
The exterior shots, what few there are, are apparently shot in Belgrade.
Review by laojim from the Internet Movie Database.
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