Sélect Hôtel (1996)
Directed by Laurent Bouhnik

Drama

Film Synopsis

Select Hôtel is a haven for the dregs of humanity.  Situated near to the Place Clichy in Paris, its habitués include prostitutes, the hopelessly unemployed, drug addicts and petty criminals, who come here to lick their wounds and escape from a world that offers them little consolation.  Nathalie lives here with Tof, her brother.  A drug addict, Nathalie scrapes a living as a prostitute, exploited and abused by her pimp, Denis.  After a dispute with a shoemaker, Pierre, Tof ransacks his shop.  Instead of denouncing Tof to the police, Pierre finds himself strangely drawn to him and his sister...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Laurent Bouhnik
  • Script: Laurent Bouhnik
  • Cinematographer: Gilles Henry
  • Music: Jérôme Coullet
  • Cast: Julie Gayet (Nathalie), Jean-Michel Fête (Tof), Serge Blumental (Pierre), Marc Andréoni (Denis), Sabine Bail (Clementine), Eric Aubrahn (Lydie), Emmanuelle Rozes (Anne), Michel Gondoin (Marcel), Aminata Falldiop (Une amie prostituée de nathalie), Stéphanie (Travestie du sélect amie de nath), Karima (Travestie du select amie de nath), Fabien Carrara (Cast Member), Philippe Collin (Cast Member), Philippe Duquesne (Cast Member), Patrick Tessari (Monsieur Saint-Paul), Jacques Bondoux (Le directeur du sélect), Isis Eymerie (Cast Member), Kamel Abdeli (Cast Member), Patrick Delassagne (le vendeur ami de Nathalie), Salvatore Mingoia (un client de Lydie)
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Support: Color
  • Runtime: 85 min

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