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The Grand Budapest Hotel is a comedy-drama film directed by Wes Anderson, featuring a concierge named Gustave H. and his lobby boy Zero as they navigate a murder mystery and a stolen painting in a fictional European country during the 1930s. The film is known for its unique visual style, humor, and themes of friendship and loyalty.
Keep your hands off my lobby boy!
The Grand Hotel Budapest is a zany, colorful and fascinating journey through old postcard Europe, such as only Hollywood can think of. With his old, almost square picture format Wes Anderson pays tribute to recent days, but with the whole movie. In addition to his brilliant humor and endearing characters, this film captures gems with seemingly small details and meticulous compositions.
A perfect holiday without leaving home.
My heart is still rolling from the escape to 30's Europe this afternoon, and without jet lag. This movie is an inspiration, a dream, a walk through a painting and a study of humanity.
Ralph Fiennes is a phenomenon as M. Gustave. his interactions with every cast member and especially newcomer Tony Revolori are fantastic. The later holds his own weight beyond belief and the entire film is an amazing adventure with James Bond style chases, a large murder mystery, the best placed cussing and of course the sensational cinematography. The sets, models, angles and even the most nondescript characters come to life each on their own and together as a symphony of beauty. It's freaking brilliant; The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Visual style
Anderson has been noted for extensive use of flat space camera moves (pans, tilts, and zooms within scenes that look two-dimensional), symmetrical compositions, snap-zooms (rapid, shakey zooms onto subjects), slow-motion walking shots, a deliberately limited color palette, and handmade art direction often using miniatures. These stylistic choices give his movies a distinctive quality that has provoked much discussion, critical study, supercuts, mash-ups, and parody. Many writers, critics, and Anderson himself have commented that this gives his movies the feel of being "self-contained worlds" or a "scale-model household". According to Jesse Fox Mayshark, his films have "a baroque pop bent that is not realist, surrealist or magic realist", but rather might be described as "fabul[ist]".
The ensemble cast includes Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Jude Law, Saoirse Ronan, and many more.
This picture won a lot of awards including 4 Oscars.
And for those who are interested or if the movie makes you hungry, Mary will have the recipe for The Courtesan au Chocolate. Mary will not be baking this as "it is beyond my skill level and patience". Maybe she can find a substitute?
Located in eastern Delaware County, Ohio, the Community Library has been serving the Big Walnut Local School District since 1944.
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