When Irene takes a position at a hotel deep in the woods of the Austrian Alps, she soon discovers the girl she replaced vanished without a trace.
Direction
Hausner's clinical framing turns mundane hotel corridors into nightmares.
Acting
Weisz's blank-faced dread — she's either complicit or terrified, you decide.
Cinematography
Static shots so still you scan the frame for movement that never comes.
Director
Jessica Hausner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 'Berlin School' movement — think Haneke's FUNNY GAMES but with even less mercy.
Hausner based the hotel on actual Austrian worker dormitories where labor exploitation persists; the horror is documentary-adjacent.
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