‘The Royal Hotel’ Review: Julia Garner And Jessica Henwick View Men From A Female Gaze In Kitty Green’s Return To Australian Filmmaking – Toronto Film Festival
deadline.comIn 2019, Australian documentary filmmaker Kitty Green made her first narrative movie, a piercing almost cinéma vérité-style movie focused on an office assistant in a Tribeca film company run by a not-so-thinly disguised Harvey Weinstein.
The male culture there and the sexual acts of the boss made it almost a modern horror story at the height of the #MeToo movement.
For Green’s second narrative film she has changed up the filmmaking style considerably, but with The Royal Hotel which premiered last week at Telluride and now premieres tonight at the Toronto Film Festival, she is taking an even deeper look at the dark side of men as seen through the female gaze in a broken down hotel bar in a desolate part of the Australian Outback.
Based on Pete Gleeson’s 2017 documentary about two Scandinavian girls stuck at the Hotel Coolgardie, the actual set-up here would make it ideal for a horror movie, but the horrors Green is interested in showing are not in that genre.
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