LOVE AT THE TWILIGHT MOTEL (Alison Rose, Canada). 90 minutes. Sunday (May 3), 9:30 pm May 9, 7:14 pm, Royal. Rating: NNNN
Director Alison Rose penetrates Miami’s hourly-rental motel strip to dig into the lives of customers and find out why they’re there.
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Her subjects range from Mr. B., a self-professed functional heroin addict on the brink of a nervous breakdown, to Rose, who was persuaded to use hard drugs and have group sex when she was 14.
Their stories are revealing, not just titillating, and offer insights about the attractions of the fast lane and the cost of staying there. The subjects let slip revelations about holes in their lives: a country left behind, an absent parent or breach of trust in a marriage.
Well-placed shots of empty motel corridors act as a constant reminder that the exhaustive search for sexual fulfilment and the income transactions at these motels is a sad and lonely venture.
