Bunker Palace Hotel
Seen it?1989 | 95 min | Science Fiction
Monday Morning Maybeearly ratingWhy it’s a Monday Morning Maybe
With almost no lasting buzz and soft box office, this one could be a tough watch. Keep your phone handy.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- If you count yourself among fans of end-of-the-world stories and anyone who likes big what-if ideas, this one's for you. It builds a whole broken world and makes you live in it. Same wavelength as The Hunger Games or Sleeper.
- The mood
- Mind-bending.
- The pace
- Moves along nicely, at 1 hr 35 min.
- What might put you off
- It's in French, so expect subtitles (or a dub).
- Skip it if you like your stories firmly grounded in the real world.
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.
How it earned its rating
- CriticsNot counted
Not enough reviews on record yet
- AudiencesNot counted
Not measured yet: not enough ratings
- AwardsNot counted
No major awards or nominations
- Reach & staying powerBelow par
Streaming release that reached a small audience so far; still draws a steady audience long after release
- Buzz & cultural impactWeak
About 4K people sought it out in the past year
Trailer
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Cast & crew
Directed by Enki Bilal
- Jean-Louis TrintignantHolm
- Carole BouquetClara
- Maria SchneiderMuriel
- Roger DumasZarka
- Yann ColletteOrsini
- Philippe Morier-GenoudDestoop
- Hans MeyerLe président
- Benoît RégentNikolaï
- Jean-Pierre LéaudSolal
- Jezabelle AmatoLa Matrone