VIFF 2013 review: Hotell

(Sweden)

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      Alicia Vikander, vivacious in Anna Karenina and A Royal Affair, here plays a young Swede who goes through a terrible childbirth and then joins a support group that decides to run away from its problems for a few days. The improvisatory film feels amusingly fresh as the group members gradually air their sometimes weird inclinations. (One guy is obsessed with Mayan torture practices.) But the last 15 minutes go so awkwardly off the rails, they undermine the validity of everything that came before.

      Playhouse, October 6 (9 p.m.) and 8 (1:30 p.m.)

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