Sélect Hôtel

It’s an hotel with the walls in the corridors covered with striped paper, crossed like the bars of a dingy prison, its rooms as large as cells. The Select Hotel is a dead end place for those who do not have enough cash to go somewhere else. The last shelter for those who hang around at night. These shadows walking silently along the streets, selling their poor body heat for a few crumpled banknotes, swallowed and digested by their voracious thirst for a cheap high. Enough to forget for a while the distress of a ruined and to dream of a more rejoicing elsewhere. Nathalie and her brother Tof struggle against this futureless world. Pierre, a shoe-repairer, troubled by Nathalie’s grace will take part for a while to the life of these two children of misery. –Quinzaine des Réalisateurs