A review by sharonfalduto
The Electric Hotel by Dominic Smith

3.0

A novel written mostly about the early days of cinema (why do I keep reading those?) but written from the perspective of the 1960s, when a film dissertation student finds old director Claude Ballard in a dingy hotel in Hollywood and asks him about his days as a promising film director and auteur, and read about his rise from an apprentice photographer to a filmmaker, the famous actress who helps make his career, all against the backdrop of the early 20th century.