Life without love and connections can be a cage of loneliness. And so can a hotel, even if it is a decadent luxury hotel in Venice full of people. Accept Our Sincere Apologies, the kaleidoscopic and at times dream-like second feature from writer-director Juja Dobrachkous (Bebia, à mon seul désir), takes us inside such a hotel and on a kaleidoscopic, visceral, and surreal journey.  The black-and-white thriller/drama, world premiering in the Harbour strand of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) on Jan. 31, follows general manager Eva, who fulfills guests’ every wish and ends up drawn to an enigmatic woman known as the Contessa. Once a sanctuary, the hotel has become a cage that both women long to escape. Indeed, beneath the surface of Eva’s composed exterior is a troubled soul, struggling with guilt, trauma and demons that she is trying to keep at bay. And its logline mysteriously asks: “Even if death turns you away, what then? Are you finally truly free?” IFFR’s website calls the film “a hypnotic gothic fantasy that seduces and unsettles.” The …