Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #117. Roman Polanski’s The Palace

The Palace

Understandably this next item on our list comes with a lot of heat. An Officer and a Spy (J’Accuse) won a trio of 45th César awards and just prior won the Silver Lion for Best Director at the Venice film festival in 2019. Moving towards a template from Jerzy Skolimowski and Ewa Piaskowska, The Palace is about a hotel in Switzerland on New Year’s Eve 1999, blending stories of guests and staff with the likes of Mickey Rourke, Joaquim de Almeida and John Cleese. Roman Polanski shot for four months in Gstaad, Switzerland. Rai Cinema backed this project.

Gist: A drama set on New Year’s Eve 1999 in a luxurious Swiss hotel where the lives of hotel workers and various guests get intertwined.

Release Date/Prediction: Polanski will likely go back to Venice especially with a film that has Italian coin.