Review: Poetic documentary Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel rages against the dying of the light

 

A scene from Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel.handout

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Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel

  • Directed by Amélie van Elmbt and Maya Duverdier
  • Featuring Merle Lister Levine, Zoe Serac Pappas and Bettina Grossman
  • Classification PG; 90 minutes
  • Opens in select theatres July 8

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The film is called Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel, but the first scene takes place outside the hotel. “Dylan Thomas used to hang out on this very roof,” singer-poet Patti Smith says. “I’ve always liked to be