Film Review: The Royal Hotel

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The Royal Hotel

See-Saw Films, Screen Australia, South Australian Film Corporation, Screen NSW, HanWay Films, Cross City Films, Alma Margo

Transmission Films, Elevation Pictures

Release date

October 6, 2023

Description

Americans Hanna and Liv are best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, Liv, looking for an adventure, convinces Hanna to take a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called ’The Royal Hotel’ in a remote Outback mining town. Bar owner Billy and a host of locals give the girls a riotous introduction to Down Under drinking culture but soon Hanna and Liv find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.

Express Review

In order to make ends meet, two young backpackers, Hanna (Julia Garner) and Liv (Jessica Henwick), take jobs as bartenders at an Australian hotel.  

This isn't exactly the safest work environment. The patrons are rowdy and Hanna and Liv are constantly bombarded with harassment.

The question is, when do you decide that enough is enough?  

My Rating

7/10

Running time

91 minutes

Directed by

Kitty Green

Screenplay by

Kitty Green and Oscar Redding

Based on

Hotel Coolgardie by Pete Gleeson

Produced by

Liz Watts, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, and Kath Shelper

Starring

Julia Garner as Hanna

Jessica Henwick as Liv

Hugo Weaving as Billy

Toby Wallace as Matty

Ursula Yovich as Carol

Daniel Henshall as Dolly

James Frecheville as Teeth

Herbert Nordrum [no] as Torsten

Barbara Lowing as Glenda

Bree Bain as Office Woman

Cinematography

Michael Latham

Edited by

Kasra Rassoulzadegan

Music by

Jed Palmer

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