Synopsis
They meet in a bar one night in Beirut. He's a foreign reporter in transit for Syria. She's a young local singer attempting to get out from under the thumb of her ex-husband. "Chambres d'hôtel" is the story of an accidental passion, told over ten days and through the lens of a menacing world that surrounds it.


Statement
A young singer falls in love with a foreigner passing through town. She gives herself body and soul to an affair essentially doomed from the outset: from the foreign lover's perspective, their meeting is an accident and an exciting conquest more than anything else. But the two love one another passionately for the duration of their time together, their mutual conquest. Romantic at its core, this film's ambition is to temper suspense ; the suspense of a latent violence that creeps in as the relationship plays itself out ; to a point where it contaminates the love story. "Chambres d'hôtel" is a love story poised on the edge of a knife, a dangerous one that exists in the here and now, much like Lebanon, vacillating between war and peace, and where the situation can crumble at any moment


Directed by : Danielle ARBID
Country: LEBANON, FRANCE
Duration: 90 minutes

Specifications
Locations and shooting dates: premier semestre 2010, France & Liban / first semester 2010, France & Lebanon
Shooting language: ARABIC, FRENCH
Working budget: € 2.8 M
Acquired financing (in April 2009): € 0.55 M


FESTIVALS / AWARDS / SCREENINGS / TELEVISIONS

2009 | Cannes Film Festival | CANNES, France
* L'Atelier du Festival (Scripts)