The Grand Budapest Hotel

4.16
    The Grand Budapest Hotel
    2014

    Synopsis

    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.

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    Cast

    • Ralph FiennesMonsieur Gustave H.
    • F. Murray AbrahamOld Zero Moustafa
    • Tony RevoloriZero Moustafa
    • Mathieu AmalricSerge X.
    • Adrien BrodyDmitri
    • Willem DafoeJ.G. Jopling
    • Jeff GoldblumDeputy Vilmos Kovacs
    • Edward NortonAlbert Henckels
    • Harvey KeitelLudwig
    • Jude LawYoung Author

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Variety

      A captivating 1930s-set caper whose innumerable surface pleasures might just seduce you into overlooking its sly intelligence and depth of feeling.
    • 100

      The Telegraph

      It’s wonderful.
    • 91

      IndieWire

      While it has many familiar ingredients — from the atmosphere to the ensemble of Anderson regulars in nearly every role — in its allegiance to Anderson's vision, everything about The Grand Budapest Hotel is a welcome dose of originality.
    • 90

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Constant lateral tracks, push-ins, whip-pans, camera moves timed to dialogue, title cards, chapter headings, miniatures, use of stop-action, fetishization of clothing and props, absurdist predicaments — all the techniques Anderson has honed over the years — are used to pinpoint effect here.
    • 90

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      Wes Anderson’s latest cinematic styling is The Grand Budapest Hotel, an exquisitely calibrated, deadpan-comic miniature that expands in the mind and becomes richer and more tragic.
    • 88

      McClatchy-Tribune News Service

      We should all be so lucky as to live in a world designed, peopled and manipulated by Wes Anderson. His latest film, The Grand Budapest Hotel, is a dark, daft and deft triumph of design details.
    • 83

      The Playlist

      As off-kilter affecting as we found its nostalgia for a world of charm and dash that really only ever existed in the movies, and as terrific as almost all of the performances are, as a whole package it fell just slightly short of the promise of its parts.
    • 80

      Time Out London

      Full of Anderson’s visual signatures – cameras that swerve, quick zooms, speedy montages – it’s familiar in style, refreshing in tone and one of Anderson’s very best films.

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