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Century Hotel (2001)
Release Year: 2001
Nation: Canada
Alternative Title: N/A
Director: David Weaver
Writer: Bridget Newson, David Weaver
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Story
Century Hotel is an omnibus film that tells five interconnected stories set in the same hotel room (room 720) during different decades of the 20th century. The first story takes place in the swinging '20s and follows a beautiful young woman who is married against her will to a brutish thug. They spend their tense honeymoon in room 720. The second story, set during the Depression era, centers on a mail-order bride from China who meets her husband for the first time in the same room. After World War II, a soldier returns home to meet his girlfriend and best friend in room 720. In the paranoid 1950s, a professor searches for his wife in the now-renovated room. During the 1980s, a lawyer finds himself with too much sex and debt while staying in room 720. The final story takes place at the dawn of the millennium as a woman comes to the newly refurbished room to meet her Internet lover.
Summary
Century Hotel is David Weaver's feature debut, screening at the Toronto Film Festival in 2001. This dramatic romance mystery weaves together five separate narratives across different decades, all connected by the same hotel room. The stories reflect various social and cultural periods of the 20th century while exploring themes of love, loss, and human connection. Notable Canadian actors such as Tom McCamus, Sandrine Holt, and Colm Feore star in this unique anthology film.
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