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| Category | Rock DVDs, Dramas Movies, Spies Videos, Gangsters, Prostitutes | | Starring | Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, Asia Argento, Annabella Sciorra, Gretchen Mol, Ryuichi Sakamoto, John Lurie | | Director | Abel Ferrara | | Producer | Edward R. Pressman | | Screenwriter | Abel Ferrara, Chris Zoist | | Story | William Gibson |
Director Abel Ferrara adapts this Willam Gibson story in which two criminals use an Italian prostitute to seduce secrets out of a Japanese geneticist. Based on a short story by cyberpunk writer William Gibson (NEUROMANCER), this sleek film stars Willem Dafoe and Christopher Walken as freelance espionage agents looking for a way to make some money in a future ruled by warring corporations. They hit on a scheme to hire gorgeous Italian prostitute Sandii (Asia Argento) to seduce a brilliant chemical engineer (Yoshitaka Amano) into leaving his family and employers for a rival company. All goes well at first, but then it seems that X (Dafoe) and Sandii have fallen in love during her training, which may have somehow caused the whole deal to go haywire. Under the uncompromising eye of director Abel Ferrara, this weird new world seems beautiful, dangerous, and very sexy. Those looking for a conventional narrative may be stumped as portable video units and handheld camera-phones advance most of the plot, but for adventurous viewers willing to actively engage it, this unique mix of breathy eroticism and technological paranoia is highly seductive. Rap artist Schoolly D composed the moody electronic score. John Lurie, Victor Argo, and Ryuichi Sakamoto appear in cameos. NEW ROSE HOTEL premiered at the Hamptons International Film Festival on October 14, 1998.
Director Abel Ferrara won both the Elvira Notari Prize and the "Bastone Bianco" Awards for the film at the 1998 Venice Film Festival.
Asia Argento is the daughter of renowned Italian horror director Dario Argento and has written and directed her own films.
Christopher Walken and Willem Dafoe also served as coproducers for this film.
The use of monitor screens and abstract video imagery to advance NEW ROSE HOTEL's plot is reminiscent of the productions staged by DaFoe's experimental New York theater company, the Wooster Group. New Rose Hotel Reviews: "...Elliptical and stylized to the max....Ferrara fans should be pleased with this tale..."-- Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times New Rose Hotel | List Price | $14.95 (You save $1.60) | | Studio | Lge | | Orig Year | 1999 | | CD Universe Part number | 1286600 | | Catalog number | 7316 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jan 01, 2006 |
New Rose Hotel Movie Review  Erotic - but not a mystery or chiller
This film highlighted Asia Argento's sexuality which did not require much acting on her part. The story line was believable but the ending left much to be desired. It was if the director could not decide how to end the movie and took the easy way out with a flashbacks - which permeated the entire movie. However, the movie was worth seeing over just to review the parts that did not make sense.
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