Værelse 304

Though considered merely passable by most online critics, this little film will endure./ Like Warhol's Chelsea Girls, Room 304 concerns the sordid lives of a cursed hotel, its focal point the room in which its manager and his colleague have an affair. In other rooms we find a Spanish hooker, a Kosovan refugee couple, and a travelling businessman-cum-Kosovan war criminal familiar to one of the refugees. A gun that turns up in the hotel laundry gets passed around till the vengeful refugee gets a hold of it then...the only flaw here is the film's relentless gravity. Still, it has something to say about a certain desperation that has virtually become the order of the day.