Continuing our series on underappreciated films available to stream is a vote for Abel Ferrara’s erotic 1998 drama
Critics balked at the maverick film-maker Abel Ferrara’s woozy erotic drama when it premiered in competition at the Venice film festival in 1998. A scrupulous adaptation of the short story by the cyberpunk pioneer William Gibson, New Rose Hotel is what we might call a film maudit – unfairly maligned and tragically misunderstood. Since then it’s proven awfully prescient, ahead of its time in its anticipation of our digital anxieties and the way screens generate huge chunks of our day-to-day reality. Best known for his gritty crime dramas like Bad Lieutenant and King of New York, Ferrara here envisions futuristic industrial espionage the best way he knows how – with a heavy dose of lo-fi sleaze, sex and delirium. That said, expect a conventional thriller and you’ll be disappointed – call it instead an existential techno-erotica,...
Critics balked at the maverick film-maker Abel Ferrara’s woozy erotic drama when it premiered in competition at the Venice film festival in 1998. A scrupulous adaptation of the short story by the cyberpunk pioneer William Gibson, New Rose Hotel is what we might call a film maudit – unfairly maligned and tragically misunderstood. Since then it’s proven awfully prescient, ahead of its time in its anticipation of our digital anxieties and the way screens generate huge chunks of our day-to-day reality. Best known for his gritty crime dramas like Bad Lieutenant and King of New York, Ferrara here envisions futuristic industrial espionage the best way he knows how – with a heavy dose of lo-fi sleaze, sex and delirium. That said, expect a conventional thriller and you’ll be disappointed – call it instead an existential techno-erotica,...
- 8/17/2020
- by Beatrice Loayza
- The Guardian - Film News
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