Gn 8. 4. And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. With its lobby located at 38°49'2"N and 9°28'32"W, the Arribas Hotel at Portugal's Praia Grande is Europe's most occidental purpose-built hotel facility. It was the stage for the shooting of The State of Things, which the director Wim Wenders started 40 years ago and premiered at the 1982 Venice Film Festival. The State of Things portrays a crew that is making a sci-fi film called The Survivors - a movie-within-the-movie - in Sintra-Lisbon, but they run out of money and film stock and become stranded in the derelict hotel where they are quartered. In the film, a monologue by the character Robert (Geoffrey Carey), set inside a motel bedroom, echoes Wenders' attraction to the location: "Lisbon, anyway... Yeah! 'Cidade de Amor'... It's really right on the edge. Far-western corner of Europe. The same ocean. All this water. Right in front of my window. Kinda... scary. And that's the whole... Where the land runs out and the sea comes in. Could wash us all away. With a big wave, baby."
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