Problemski Hotel

I’m not going to try to conceal the fact that I was looking forward to this one, but what I got was an average, or rather below-average disappointment. Problemski Hotel does offer an interesting topic to tell a story about and according to the synopsis, the movie looks very attractive. But the problem appears at the very start. The movie is very impersonal. The characters, even though they are interesting, are in reality really easy to see through. The viewer has no reason to root for them and actually won’t be surprised that they got stuck where they did. The protagonist Bipul is definitely the most striking character, who doesn’t really seem to fit into this situation, but who eventually ends up the same as anybody else. For the 110 minutes, I was bored rather than trying to empathize with the characters, who are trying to live, but in reality are merely surviving. (14.02.2017)