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Hotel Chevalier

Leaving August 31 • 13m

Directed by Wes Anderson • 2007 • United States, France
Starring Jason Schwartzman, Natalie Portman

In this prologue to Wes Anderson’s THE DARJEELING LIMITED, a man (Jason Schwartzman) and his former lover (Natalie Portman) reunite in a Paris hotel room for a charged encounter suspended between a troubled past and an uncertain future.

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