SummaryCriminals Fox (Walken) and X (Dafoe) use and Italian prostitute (Argento) to seduce a Japanese genetic scientist and learn his secrets.
Directed By:Abel Ferrara
Written By:William Gibson, Abel Ferrara, Christ Zois
New Rose Hotel
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
31
User score
Generally Favorable
7.4
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Generally Unfavorable
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60
On the very edge of coherence -- but I find its decadent erotic poetry irresistible.
50
Quirky acting combines with Ferrara's dark, brooding style to give the throwaway story a noteworthy measure of dramatic and cinematic interest.
User score
Generally Favorable
7.4
69% Positive
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Jul 26, 2024
10
I liked the music. It was well connected. The director managed to make a really beautiful movie. You just have to go and see
Oct 5, 2015
8
New Rose Hotel, I admit, is not actually a good movie (though it is). It lacks in dramatic tension and in substance, material. Why do some rate it up then? I do so for the style and the acting. I think you have to be a fan of Walken, Defoe, literature, noir, and enjoy looking at Argento red lit to be able to rate this one up.
50
It's moody and atmospheric. But with the exception of a few cool moments that remind you of Ferrara at his best, it's dull and written with little attention paid to basic storytelling.
40
A painfully claustrophobic picture.
30
The first two-thirds are turgid enough; in the last, Ferrara begins replaying scenes we've already seen earlier in the film.
20
What's on the screen is so dreadful that it inspires the ontological question "What are films and why is this not one of them?"
13
Virtually unwatchable.
Feb 12, 2022
3
Too chaotic for its own good, mostly because the experience feels too spaced out in a concept that doesn't make its characters or the situations they are undergoing somehow more substantial to the viewer, or maybe it was my problem because of the massive lack of interest I developed in the story and its protagonists. A very poor film from Abel Ferrara.
