9 Star Hotel
2007-Apr-25 by Laughcalvin
David D'Arcy files one a bit before TriBeca opens that catches the head.. no heart: 9 Star Hotel, Ido Haar's documentary from Israel about Palestinian workers, building Modi'in, a new city there on the site of an ancient Jewish town that is said to have been home to the Maccabees. They work illegally, passing from the Occupied Territories into Israel (although everyone, including their bosses, seems to know it) and they live illegally in settlements built from what artists like to call found materials in the hills above their construction site. The title is a joke. Not much else in this film is.


