The Palace

2023
1h 40m

IMDb RATING

5.4/10

3.5K

YOUR RATING

A drama set on New Year's Eve 1999 in a luxurious Swiss hotel where the lives of hotel workers and various guests get intertwined.

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A drama set on New Year's Eve 1999 in a luxurious Swiss hotel where the lives of hotel workers and various guests get intertwined.A drama set on New Year's Eve 1999 in a luxurious Swiss hotel where the lives of hotel workers and various guests get intertwined.A drama set on New Year's Eve 1999 in a luxurious Swiss hotel where the lives of hotel workers and various guests get intertwined.

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IMDb RATING

5.4/10

3.5K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination total

Trivia
When suggesting to use a bandaid for Bongo's nose, Hansueli suggests he would look like "that actor" in "that movie". He's speaking of Jack Nicholson in Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974).

Goofs
Champagne, especially a $12,450 bottle of Bollinger 1938 vintage champagne, would never under any circumstances be served at room temperature.

Quotes
Arthur William Dallas III: Can I have that blowjob now?

Connections
References Chinatown (1974)

Soundtracks
Mambo No.5 (A Little Bit Of...)
Written by Dámaso Pérez Prado, Lou Bega and Zippy Davids
Performed by Lou Bega

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Review

Featured review

9/10

Hotel in the snow

A riff on Knife in the water ... though do not compare those two! So no pun intended as always. Polanski has not lost his touch. Whatever one may think of him personally (I won't go into his legal issues, you either know about them, can look for them and/or do not care) ... he is a really good director! The cast he assembled speaks for itself.

The comedy is something you have to like, but the Hotel Manager is absolutely fantastic! Then you have John Cleese who is able to perform ... in many ways! Even without text ... as his comedy tour says (title): watch me before I die - I am paraphrasing here ... but you get the point.

That said, there is a lot of mayhem going on ... and it all has the absolute highlight at the end ... cgi "joke" ... but that should not matter ... had a few laugh out loud moments myself ... you can have quite a lot of fun with it.