Hotel Chevalier A 13 Minute Movie Wes Anderson Directed Natalie Portman Jason Schwartzman

Directed by Wes Anderson and produced by John Runkle Hotel Chevalier was released in 2007. This short film featured Natalie Portman and Jason Schwartzman. It is a prologue to The Darjeeling Limited by Anderson which was released in the same year. The whole act takes place before Schwartzman aka Jack meets his brothers. The whole episode is shot in a hotel. It was screened with the movie in 64th Annual Venice Film Festival. The film shot in Hotel Raphael in Paris also features the song by Peter Sarstedt “Where Do You Go To (My Lovely).”

Hotel Chevalier is famous for a number of reasons. Apart from the unique concept Natalie Portman appeared nude onscreen for the first time. The whole short film was shot in Room 403 of the hotel. Jack or Schwartzman orders a glass of chocolate milk, grilled cheese sandwich and onion soup. As he orders all these he gets a call from his ex girlfriend who has just arrived in the city. She wants to meet him in his hotel room in Paris. As Jason tidies the room the woman arrives and during the course of the conversation the audience gets to know that Jason was staying in the room for “more than a month”.

After the food is given in the room of Hotel Chevalier the two kiss each other and make love. Jack notices a number of bruises on her arms but she does not elaborate on how she got the bruises. As the woman wants to remain friends with Jack, he promises to show her Paris. The film ends on a positive note as the duo stand in the balcony and have a view of the surroundings before returning to the room.

Hotel Chevalier was first released in United States and could be downloaded from iTunes in 2007. Later on 26th October the short movie was released as a prologue to The Darjeeling Limited. Before it was released it created a lot of promotional hype as it was downloaded frequently by almost all the surfers. According to a Fox Searchlight representative this was a planned step to create a buzz about the movie so that ultimately it gets to the Oscars. The screenplay of the movie was in published in Zoetrope: All-Story in 2007. The movie is only 13 minutes long and the cinematography is done by Robert Yeoman while the editor of Hotel Chevalier is Vincent Marchand. Hotel Chevalier