The Palace

The Palace (2023) is Roman Polanski's dark comedy you can watch online on iFILM. The setting: a grand hotel in the Swiss Alps on New Year's Eve 1999, hours before the world braced for Y2K.

The guest list reads like a satire in itself — old-money heirs, faded celebrities, Russian arrivals with suitcases full of cash, and a handful of people who simply have nowhere better to be. Oliver Masucci plays the hotel's beleaguered manager trying to hold the night together while Fanny Ardant, John Cleese, and Mickey Rourke each deliver portraits of the obscenely privileged convinced their wealth insulates them from consequences. It doesn't.

Polanski frames the countdown to midnight as a comedy of manners with a sharp bite — every extravagant demand exposes another crack in the facade. Stream The Palace (2023) online on iFILM.