Century Hotel
David Weaver makes his feature debut with this omnibus film in which each tale is told during different points during the 20th century, but in the same hotel room -- room 720. The film opens during the swinging '20s when a beautiful young woman, married against her will to a brutish thug of a man, endures a tension-fraught honeymoon. During the Depression segment, a mail-order bride from China meets her husband for the first time. Following the end of WWII, a soldier returns home to meet his girlfriend and his best friend. During the paranoia of the 1950s, a professor searches for his wife. During the 1980s, a lawyer has too much sex and debt, and during the dawn of the millennium, a woman comes to a newly refurbished room 720 to meet her Internet lover. Such acclaimed Canadian actors as Tom McCamus, Sandrine Holt, and Colm Feore star in this film, which was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival.
Cast
Joel Bissonnette
as Danny
Lindy Booth
as Supergirl/Sylvia
Albert Chung
as Cheung
Colm Feore
as Sebastian
David Hewlett
as Michael
Sandrine Holt
as Jin
Noam Jenkins
as Young Salvatore
Marvin Kaye
as Hotel Manager
Janet Kidder
as Beth
Mia Kirshner
as Dominique
