Review of The Palace

A splendid grotesque The present film of maestro Polanski is another joy for the connoisseurs of the serious cinema. Non political correctness, non compromises. Tipical Polanski's style of a high end cinematographist. The fairtail atmosphear in an Alpine five star hotel, where the story takes place, very soon changes itself in an avalanch-like incidents in the new year 2000 evening fest. Grotesque characters, representing the full spectrum of the human society, unviel yourself in laconic but picturesque way. A lot of dark humour, irony and realisme in the same time, show us the heros in theire ultimate excitement. Russian and islamic personages emerge like monsters you can't avoid. Tragicomedy of all levels of life. The film is amusable and in the same time philosophically profound, aesthetically pleasing another masterpice of the great Polanski.