2023 · comedy · drama
The Palace
Directed by Roman Polanski1h 40m2023
A comedy set on New Year’s Eve 1999 in a luxurious hotel in the Swiss Alps where the lives of various guests and those who work for them intersect.
Our read: The Palace (2023) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- gentle
- bleak
- cold
- intimate
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