Hôtel des Amériques

André Téchiné, 1981, France, 95min, DCP
Starring Catherine Deneuve, Patrick Dewaere

A tale of doomed passion set in the resort town of Biarritz featuring Patrick Dewaere and Catherine Deneuve in their only on-screen pairing. Master of emotional nuance and romantic intensity, André Téchiné tailor-made this love story for his two legendary stars, capturing Dewaere’s bewitching blend of vulnerability and wounded charisma and giving Deneuve a haunted quality belying her icy exterior. In short, a tearjerker in the noblest sense of the term. Interviewed after Dewaere’s death, Deneuve revealed that he was one of the few actors whose work ever made her weep on set.