Product: The Million Dollar Hotel (2000)
Rating: 5.0
Another Triumph for Wim Wenders
This is one of the finest films I've seen in years. Visually stunning, it has a sense of humor which manages to be strangely uplifting -- even though the main character dies within the first five minutes of the film, and everyone in the lunatic world has a hidden agenda. Spectacular aristry of performance by the main character (I'm afraid I don't know the actor's name) and by Milla Jojovich, who manages to make fragile intelligence seem fresh instead of cliched.However, don't go in expecting it to be an easy, formula film. This is one more for the arthouse crowd than the "oooh Mel Gibson -- what a hunk" groupies.Watch for U2's Bono (co-author) in one of the crowd scenes.