| | european-films.net - review: Grandhotel (Berlinale 2007) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | Grandhotel's screenplay by Pavel Jech and Jaroslav Rudis never explains when and how the various characters ended up at the hotel but treats them as if they barely met before the film starts, lending the first indoor scenes an air of the opening act of a farce. |
 | | Jech and Rudis are to be commended however for trying to set up jokes involving pubes, sperm and underwear for characters who are struggling with some issues that are taken from everyday life rather than the glamorous teenage lifestyle that Hollywood so often invents for its juvenile characters. |
 | | Absent parents, infertility, insecurity, dark pasts and desires to flee from Liberec, where the hotel is based, are all part of one or more characters’ make-up, and Ondrícek gives these problems just as much space as the laughter-inducing antics of his protagonists. |
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