The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Country: US/GER/GB
Technical: col/bw/1.37:1/1.85:1/2.35:1 100m
Director: Wes Anderson
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Harvey Keitel, Jude Law, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Saoirse Ronan, Jason Schwartzman, Léa Seydoux, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton
Synopsis:
1968: on a visit to an East European state hotel that has seen better days, a writer learns from its owner of his adventures as a lobby boy with the extraordinary Maitre D, Monsieur Gustave.
Review:
Spending much of its time in the 1930s, with appropriately variegated aspect ratios throughout the movie, Anderson's adaptation of writings by Stefan Zweig is a glorious recreation of an epoch, with painstakingly chosen and reproduced props alongside veiled references to the political turmoil of the period. Fiennes and the rest of the cast have a whale of a time - so good to see Murray Abraham again - and there can be few films which offer such undiluted escapist fun for such a sustained running time and at such an elevated level of taste and discernment, that is if you are not put off by Anderson's resolutely four-square shooting style and archness of tone. Can there be such people?
Country: US/GER/GB
Technical: col/bw/1.37:1/1.85:1/2.35:1 100m
Director: Wes Anderson
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Harvey Keitel, Jude Law, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Saoirse Ronan, Jason Schwartzman, Léa Seydoux, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton
Synopsis:
1968: on a visit to an East European state hotel that has seen better days, a writer learns from its owner of his adventures as a lobby boy with the extraordinary Maitre D, Monsieur Gustave.
Review:
Spending much of its time in the 1930s, with appropriately variegated aspect ratios throughout the movie, Anderson's adaptation of writings by Stefan Zweig is a glorious recreation of an epoch, with painstakingly chosen and reproduced props alongside veiled references to the political turmoil of the period. Fiennes and the rest of the cast have a whale of a time - so good to see Murray Abraham again - and there can be few films which offer such undiluted escapist fun for such a sustained running time and at such an elevated level of taste and discernment, that is if you are not put off by Anderson's resolutely four-square shooting style and archness of tone. Can there be such people?
Country: US/GER/GB
Technical: col/bw/1.37:1/1.85:1/2.35:1 100m
Director: Wes Anderson
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Harvey Keitel, Jude Law, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Saoirse Ronan, Jason Schwartzman, Léa Seydoux, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton
Synopsis:
1968: on a visit to an East European state hotel that has seen better days, a writer learns from its owner of his adventures as a lobby boy with the extraordinary Maitre D, Monsieur Gustave.
Review:
Spending much of its time in the 1930s, with appropriately variegated aspect ratios throughout the movie, Anderson's adaptation of writings by Stefan Zweig is a glorious recreation of an epoch, with painstakingly chosen and reproduced props alongside veiled references to the political turmoil of the period. Fiennes and the rest of the cast have a whale of a time - so good to see Murray Abraham again - and there can be few films which offer such undiluted escapist fun for such a sustained running time and at such an elevated level of taste and discernment, that is if you are not put off by Anderson's resolutely four-square shooting style and archness of tone. Can there be such people?