Friday 11 July 2014

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014 Wes Anderson)

Inspired by novel by (Letter from an Unknown Woman) Stefan Zweig, written by Anderson and Hugo Guinness, startling-looking film is distinctively shot mainly in 4x3 and straight on and centred, like an old silent movie. Ralph Fiennes runs away with the film as the super-efficient, wrongly accused concierge, aided by bellboy Tony Revolori.


In style it seems directly descended from Fantastic Mr Fox, with miniatures and animation, and the same trick where characters in a foreground are suddenly in the background, and a toe-tapping final balalaika tune from Alexandre Desplat.

Absolutely amazing sets and decoration shot in gorgeous hues by Robert Yeoman.

With the Anderson regulars - Schwartzman, Wilson, Murray, Balaban, Brody, Defoe, Norton - plus Saiorse Ronan, F Murray Abraham, Jude Law, Tilda Swinton, Jeff Goldblum, Harvey Keitel, Mathieu Amalric and Tom Wilkinson.

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