Four Rooms
1995 · Directed by Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino
Original language: English
- comedy
The story
It's Ted the Bellhop's first night on the job...and the hotel's very unusual guests are about to place him in some outrageous predicaments. It seems that this evening's room service is serving up one unbelievable happening after another.
What it’s like
Bright, heightened sitcom comedy shot in a shabby Los Angeles hotel that looks like a faded 1990s storybook: saturated reds and greens, tight cramped frames, and a restless handheld energy that tips into frantic slapstick. Each of its four segments carries its own look and tempo, so the film shifts from wry and slow in one room to loud and jittery in the next, with a jumpy, jazzy soundtrack and sudden stings of music marking the escalations. The vibe is chaotic, playful, and knowingly absurd, a late-night caper for a group of friends who want to laugh at escalating nonsense. Tim Roth plays the flustered bellhop at the center, and the people around him are mostly odd, bickering, and increasingly unhinged. Nothing here is gentle: there is considerable crude humour, sexual innuendo and nudity, cartoonish but real peril, and a few sharp bursts of violence and gunplay. It suits viewers who enjoy irreverent, rough-edged comedy with an anthology structure and don't mind bad behaviour played for laughs.
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