Hotel setting

The Shining uses the isolated hotel as a claustrophobic psychological maze that becomes a character itself, exploring madness and isolation within its confined spaces.

The Grand Budapest Hotel transforms the hotel into a meticulously crafted world that reflects his distinctive aesthetic while exploring themes of nostalgia, loss, and human connection across generations.

Mon Oncle and Playtime use hotel and modernist architectural spaces as stages for satirizing contemporary society, bureaucracy, and the absurdity of human interaction in impersonal environments.