{"id":37672,"date":"2024-11-17T07:41:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T12:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37672"},"modified":"2024-11-17T07:41:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T12:41:12","slug":"the-royal-hotel-2023-starring-julia-garner-and-jessica-henswick-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37672","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Royal Hotel&#8221; (2023) starring Julia Garner and Jessica Henswick \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z111724zview_royalhotel.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"706\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>The Royal Hotel <\/i>(2023)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Kitty Green<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Kitty Green, Oscar Redding\u00a0<\/strong>based on <em>Hotel Coolgardie<\/em> by<strong> Pete Gleeson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Julia Garner, Jessica Henwick, Toby Wallace, James Frecheville <\/strong>and <strong>Hugo Weaving.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 <em>A fun adventure is all they wanted<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hannah (Garner) and Liv (Henwick) are backpacking across Australia.\u00a0 When their money runs low, the only job the employment agency offers is bartending at a remote pub in a mining town hours from civilization.\u00a0 They are warned that the place gets wild.\u00a0 The girls are looking for adventure, so they take the job.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The pub is in the middle of nowhere.\u00a0 No wifi.\u00a0 Hot water is a luxury.\u00a0 The pub is full of drunken men.\u00a0 Miners letting off steam party hard.\u00a0 The dirty jokes, sexism and rude behavior disturbs Hanna.\u00a0 She&#8217;s ready to leave after the first night.\u00a0 Liv plays it off as boys being boys.\u00a0 Besides there isn&#8217;t a bus for several days.\u00a0 So Hannah agrees to tough it out.<\/p>\n<p>Big mistake.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Hotel Royal<\/em> was inspired by the documentary <em>Hotel Coolgardie<\/em> (2016).<\/p>\n<p>Julia Garner and Jessica Henwick are, as The Hollywood Reporter says, &#8220;superb&#8221;.\u00a0 Sadly the film doesn&#8217;t live up to their performances.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; 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