Americans Hanna (Julia Garner) and Liv (Jessica Henwick) are best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, Liv, looking for an adventure, convinces Hanna to take a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called The Royal Hotel in a remote Outback mining town. Bar owner Billy (Hugo Weaving) and a host of locals give the girls a riotous introduction to Down Under drinking culture, but soon Hanna and Liv find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.
Kitty Green’s gritty, nail-biting follow-up to The Assistant, The Royal Hotel has been praised by the likes of Vulture, the Hollywood Reporter, Empire Magazine, and the Chicago Tribune. Check it out at IU Cinema this Friday and Saturday!
“Green continues to establish herself as an insightful chronicler of the minor yet devastating terrors of violent masculinity that many women endure everywhere they go.” — Marya E. Gates
The Royal Hotel will be screened at IU Cinema on January 26 and January 27 as part of the International Art House Series.