Laurent Bouhnik

Teaches directing and script-writing at La Fémis (Paris).

(About Select Hotel): This film is what Brecht called 'a tragedy of the little people'. Pierre is like the line between the audience, the people paying to see the film, and the characters like Nathalie and Tof, who are human beings beyond being social stereotypes. Pierre recognises his own darkness in these two characters and in this he understands that things are not black and white, they're between the two. And when one recognises this, one can start to live with others - which is what Pierre does.