![]() She keeps getting lost, gives the taxi driver the wrong address for her hotel, calls herself by different names as she mingles with festivalgoers, pretends to be part of a tour group. Clare, a 37-year-old sales rep for an elevator company whose marriage was good, bad and mysterious, admits to feeling unmoored. ![]() ![]() “The Third Hotel” can be as slippery as any eel. Viewers are plunged into a state of terror when you “take away their compass, their tools for navigating the world.” What’s left are new truths, “swimming like eels under the skin.” There’s also a nod to Daphne du Maurier’s chilly short story “Don’t Look Now.” Early on in the narrative, the director of the zombie movie says the foundation of horror is a dislocation of reality. Has Clare’s grief conjured a ghost? Or is this a case of mistaken identity? Van den Berg lets her surreal tale do the telling, paying homage to Latin American cinema and horror films in the process. ![]()
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