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Best friends Hanna and Liv take a live-in job at 'The Royal Hotel' in a remote Outback mining town, only to find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation.
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Hanna and Liv are best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, they take a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called 'The Royal Hotel' in a remote Outback mining town. Soon, Hanna and Liv find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.
"After directing the excellent The Assistant, filmmaker Kitty Green returned to the world of toxic masculinity with The Royal Hotel. Once again starring Julia Garner, the film presents a premise that, on its own, is already distressing: two friends (Garner and Jessica Henwick) travel through Australia and agree to work at a bar-hotel in the country's interior to make some money. From there, Green creates a tragic scenario, with a desperate tonal growth, in which men stand in the way of these characters in violent and/or ulterior ways. It doesn't have the strength of The Assistant, a film that surprises by portraying the misogyny of the job market and the film industry with interesting insight, but The Royal Hotel reaffirms how Kitty Green is an interesting filmmaker who knows how to address today's toxic masculinity."