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...Rosenberg first got the idea for the film during a trip to Niagara Falls. After seeing the Falls, he started talking with the very cynical manager of the honeymoon hotel where he was staying. He was fascinated by the stories of "brides and bridegrooms getting out of their limousines directly from their wedding and having these incredible knock-down, drag-out fights right in the hotel foyer before they'd even gone up to their room." The hotel also featured what Rosenberg termed "very watered-down fantasy theme rooms...
...Rosenberg, the rooms serve to symbolize and accentuate the comic absurdity on the screen. For example, the parents of the twin brothers, who loathe each other after 30 years of marriage, are staying in the sports stadium room. Astro-turf on the floor, a referee signaling a goal, and the crowds painted on the walls peering down on the contest below -- all highlight the spectacle of their raucous disputes...
...course, the movie itself does not take place at the actual Niagara Falls. Instead, it's set in a fictitious, miniaturized, Australian version of the great tourist attraction dubbed "Niagara Smalls." Like the three-foot waterfall, the cast and Rosenberg himself, Hotel de Love is distinctly Australian. But Rosenberg sees the cultural differences from Down Under as an advantage when presenting his film to American audiences...
...making films in English is that we're foreign, but we're not too foreign. We have the same culture, but we have kind of a strange take on it. We have a shared culture with America, but we have our own idiosyncratic way of looking at it," Rosenberg says...
Before Hotel de Love, Rosenberg was an accomplished fiction writer who had already won three national literary awards in Australia. Now that he's made the transition to filmmaking he hopes to create a healthy balance of writing and film...