Bunker Palace Hôtel - Enki Bilal (1989)

Bunker Palace Hôtel
From Enki Bilal

Quote :

In an imaginary dictature of a futuristic world, rebellion has broken out. The men in power scramble to the Bunker Palace Hotel, a bunker built long ago for just this kind of contingency. But a rebel spy sneaks in, and although her nature is very quickly suspected, she is left to observe the raving of the decadent power class, who keeps wondering what happened to their leader, who has failed to show up

Great
Same director as the more famous and more recent Immortel (ad vitam). I wouldn't have guessed cause it is totally different. Immortel is just a movie with good special effects and a very bad nearly non existent scenario (crap if you ask me) and Bunker Palace Hôtel is a movie with no special effects but a genius work in every other aspects
Cause no, that I'm convinced of, you dont need special effect to have a good sci-fi movie. Here you have everything: the futurist ambiance, the robots (played by humans), the appocalyps story... I really like this movie. It is a bit slow from time to time but it didn't bother me at all. I really loved that you dont really know where they are, in which year, who these people really are, you just get a glimps of a moment in time. Strange kaos atmosphere, nice music, brilliant acting and intriguing story.
Defenetly one to discover

(and I secretly wished this would have been directed by Jeunet, dont know why, I thought about him a few times during the movie, he would have turned it into a even greater piece)



(Trailer in French but watch it anyway )

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