Hotel Chevalier

Hotel Chevalier
Hotel Chevalier
	Promotional film poster
Directed by	Wes Anderson
Written by	Wes Anderson
Starring	Jason Schwartzman; Natalie Portman;
Cinematography	Robert Yeoman
Edited by	Vincent Marchand
Music by	Pascal Rogé
Production; companies	American Empirical Pictures; Première Heure;
Distributed by	Fox Searchlight Pictures
Release dates	September 2, 2007 (Venice Film Festival); September 26, 2007 (iTunes Store);
Running time	13 minutes
Countries	United States; France;
Language	English

Hotel Chevalier is a 2007 short film written and directed by Wes Anderson. Starring Jason Schwartzman and Natalie Portman as former lovers who reunite in a Paris hotel room, the 13-minute film acts as a prologue to Anderson's 2007 feature The Darjeeling Limited. It was shot on location in a Parisian hotel by a small crew and self-financed by Anderson, who initially intended it to be a stand-alone work. Its first showing was at the Venice Film Festival première of the feature film on September 2, 2007, and it made its own debut later that month at Apple Stores in four U.S. cities.

The day after the film's première, it was made freely available from the iTunes Store for one month, during which time it was downloaded more than 500,000 times. The film garnered acclaim from reviewers, who compared it favorably to The Darjeeling Limited and praised its richness, poignancy, and careful construction.

^ "Hotel Chevalier (2005)". Film & TV Database. London: British Film Institute. Archived from the original on January 17, 2009. Retrieved April 17, 2012.

[1] "Hotel Chevalier (2005)". Film & TV Database. London: British Film Institute. Archived from the original on January 17, 2009. Retrieved April 17, 2012.

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