Amélie van Elmbt and Maya Duverdier

Dreaming Walls

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Edition 2022 — Movies
Official Section Panorama
Festival

Dreaming Walls

Amélie van Elmbt and Maya Duverdier

2021

80 min.

Belgium, France, Netherlands and Sweden

English

Subtitles: Catalan

A requiem for the Chelsea Hotel. The old tenants have to leave to make way for luxury flats. Warhol's free spirit meets gentrification.

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Show

Direction

Amélie van Elmbt and Maya Duverdier

Executive Production

Lori Cheatle

Distribution

Dogwoof

Production

Hanne Phlypo, Quentin Laurent

Co-production

Frédéric de Goldschmidt, Simone van den Broek, David Herdies

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Amélie van Elmbt, Maya Duverdier

Datasheet

Direction

Amélie van Elmbt and Maya Duverdier

Executive Production

Lori Cheatle

Distribution

Dogwoof

Production

Hanne Phlypo, Quentin Laurent

Co-production

Frédéric de Goldschmidt, Simone van den Broek, David Herdies

Guió

Amélie van Elmbt, Maya Duverdier

Synopsis

A requiem for the Chelsea Hotel produced by Martin Scorsese. The owners of the iconic building kick out the lifelong tenants to turn this counterculture symbol into luxury flats. The free spirit of the 60s meets real estate speculation. A cinematic journey through the legendary building as renovation work is carried out in the flats. Each door hides an amazing resident with a good story to share. A beautiful homage, that connects past and present without sentimentality, in a multidimensional portrait. The legacy of Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen and the Warhol entourage will never die.

About the direction

Amélie van Elmbt

Co-Director

After studying film at the Belgian Film School IAD, Amélie ¬worked ¬as ¬a casting director and assis...

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Maya Duverdier

Co-Director

After a bachelor in arts in France, Maya Duverdier obtained her Master's degree in cinema at the Eco...

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Awards and festivals

CPH:DOX

Dinamarca, 2022

Berlinale

Alemanya, 2022

Amélie van Elmbt and Maya Duverdier

Dreaming Walls

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Reviews

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Amélie Van Elmbt and Maya Duverdier propose a documentary that portrays the mythical Chelsea Hotel. A visit at once historical and phantasmagorical of this symbol of New York.
— Aurore Engelen, Cineuropa

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It's a ghost story tormented by fame and celebrity, but in the end it's much more grounded and universal than that (...) Dreaming Walls opts in and achieves silent power.
— Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter

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