The Grand Budapest Hotel
Film details
| Film Title | The Grand Budapest Hotel |
|---|---|
| Suitability | |
| Genre | |
| Length | 100mins |
| Year | 2014 |
| Country | Germany, United States of America |
| Director | Wes Anderson |
| Actors | 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, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson |
| Language | English, French |
| Showings |
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.
Both Anderson’s most tightly wound and funniest film in years, lacking the melancholy charm of The Royal Tenenbaums or Moonrise Kingdom perhaps, but more than making up for it in terms of elegantly capering contrivance.
★★★★
It’s Fiennes who coolly walks off with the film. Switching seamlessly between courtliness and profanity, he displays a gift for comic timing that’s rarely been unleashed since his Essex gang boss in 2007’s In Bruges.
★★★★★
