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The Palace

2023 1h 40m Comedy Drama List
10% Tomatometer 20 Reviews 64% Audience Score 50+ Ratings
New Year's Eve 1999, a luxurious Swiss hotel where the lives of hotel workers and various guests get intertwined. Read More Read Less

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Philip De Semlyen Time Out Roman Polanski's Eurotrash hotel farce is an absolute stinker. Sep 5, 2023 Full Review Kevin Maher Times (UK) An eye-scorching atrocity that is instantly one of the most egregious film-making failures of the year, possibly even the decade. Rated: 0/5 Sep 3, 2023 Full Review Ben Croll TheWrap The director’s changing circumstance feels directly relevant to the cast he could assemble for this humorless black comedy, and to the build of unyielding grotesquery that makes the film feel like a giant middle finger to the world. Sep 2, 2023 Full Review Randy Meeks Espinof There is a terrible lack of character arcs and controlled chaos that would have added color to the film, but, all things considered, some of the film's gags more or less work, even if by sheer accumulation. [Full review in Spanish] Rated: 2/5 Apr 29, 2024 Full Review Javier Ocaña El Pais (Spain) The Palace is perhaps the biggest final debacle of a cinema giant in all of history. [Full review in Spanish] Apr 26, 2024 Full Review Toni Vall Cinemanía (Spain) The most unexpected film of recent times. Rated: 3/5 Apr 24, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

Audience Reviews

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Dmitriy K The only reason for the low rating is because most of the critics will recognize themselves or their close ones in the characters. But what rating level would you anticipate from someone who is told truth about himself, society and times we live in or used to live in until recently. But rotten tomatoes wants to be politically correct here. Hypocrisy at it's purest. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/07/24 Full Review Gerald H This definitely deserves a better rating than the 10%. But the movie looses all its strength when the end is just an open breathless bag. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 08/06/24 Full Review A C I laughed! And quite a lot. It's a good low budget comedy with moderate dis on the rich. These critics with 0/5 scores are f@ck1ng tools, paied by the 1%. And in their sick mind they are so afraid to lose their paycheck. That's all. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 05/04/24 Full Review Igor M Funny and original with a huge distance to everything - The Palace shows the comedy genius of Polanski, not often appreciated. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/06/24 Full Review Raul G Hacía mucho tiempo que no me reía tanto. Me hizo revivir todo el delirio del fin de siglo, las teorías sobre el fin del mundo, la interminable galería de rosotros monstruosos provocados por la cirugía plástica, la cultura del derroche y la ostentación de los nuevos ricos, la decadencia. Muy buenos gags, sostenidos en la sutileza de los gestos y las situaciones. Otra muestra de la versatilidad de Polanski para contar historias. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/03/24 Full Review Diana K It kind of surprises me that many people see in this movie is a slapstick, definitely not smart or somehow important. From a bit different perspective, this movie talks about whats truly wrong with our century: it shows the roots of atrocities we are witnessing now, few decades later in the 21 century. And it does it with great humor. In a fancy hotel, which implies our world, you can see representatives of the Western countries thinking about dogs poop and those of Eastern getting drunk and fighting for their selfish interests. And all of that while watching the rise of Putin just like some soap opera in the background. Nobody cared, that's the truth. And the only human element, which are cousins from the Check Republic, is being dismissed. A great movie. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/01/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis New Year's Eve 1999, a luxurious Swiss hotel where the lives of hotel workers and various guests get intertwined.
Director
Roman Polański, Roman Polanski
Producer
Luca Barbareschi
Screenwriter
Jerzy Skolimowski, Ewa Piaskowska, Jerzy Skolimowski, Ewa Piaskowska, Roman Polanski
Production Co
RAI Cinema, EP Productions, CAB Productions
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
Italian
Runtime
1h 40m