'The Royal Hotel' Is Every Woman's Toxic-Masculinity Nightmare
Kitty Green’s ‘The Royal Hotel’ drops two young women (Julia Garner, Jessica Henwick) into an Australian wasteland where rejecting men can turn ugly.
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Kitty Green’s ‘The Royal Hotel’ drops two young women (Julia Garner, Jessica Henwick) into an Australian wasteland where rejecting men can turn ugly.
“The Royal Hotel,” the setting of Kitty Green’s ulcer-inducing thriller, is a sun-baked bar in a rural Australian mining town surrounded by terrain so monotone that Canadian backpackers Hanna (Julia Garner) and Liv (Jessica Henwick) can’t keep their eyes open on the way in. The two young women arrive at their barmaid jobs with a …
Kitty Green's queasy thriller 'The Royal Hotel' drops Julia Garner and Jessica Henwick in a rural Aussie pub where beers are cold and tempers run hot.
"The Royal Hotel," Kitty Green's follow-up to "The Assistant," rides a fine line between genres. Review.
Director Kitty Green's movie that screened at the Toronto International Film Festival is a chillingly spot-on depiction of how, in dank rooms filled with belligerent drunks, the line between a jolly time and a dangerous one is treacherously thin.