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The Palace
Comedy, Drama
A comedy set on New Year’s Eve 1999 in a luxurious hotel in the Swiss Alps where the lives of various guests and those who work for them intersect.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy broad ensemble farce, grotesque caricature, and cynical comedy aimed at the rituals of wealth and status.
- Tone
- darkly comic, satirical, campy
- Payoff
- amusement
- Pacing
- brisk
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- episodic
- Themes
- class privilege, decadence, social absurdity, millennium anxiety
- Setting
- late twentieth century, luxurious alpine hotel