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Friday 18 April 2014

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Saturday April 5, 2014



Review

Five-star hotel

BY SHARMILLA GANESAN
Once you come in and stay a while, you may never want to leave the world of this delightful movie.
What is The Grand Budapest Hotel about? Is it about the mightily proper hotel concierge Gustave (Ralph Fiennes) who is framed for murder? Or about the young lobby boy Zero (Tony Revolori) who first starts out as his apprentice and ends up his closest confidante?
Is it about Boy With Apple, the priceless painting bequeathed by a rich dowager to Gustave in her will? Or her sons, Dmitri (Adrien Brody) and Jopling (Willem Dafoe), who will stop at nothing to get it back? Or is it simply about the grand old hotel itself?
The answer to that question may depend entirely on who is doing the telling, as Wes Anderson’s story-within-a-story-within-a-story, like the particularly delicious gateau that pops up throughout the movie, is a complex confection of layers on top of layers.
Peopled with a sprawling cast of quirky characters, The Grand Budapest Hotel could be about any number of their stories, and while it tells a strong main narrative, also manages to draw you into all their what-ifs and could-bes.
Caught red handed: 'Horizontal AND vertical stripes? This is a crime of fashion!'
Caught red handed: ‘Horizontal AND vertical stripes? This is a crime of fashion!’
The film begins with a girl reading a memoir by The Author, which takes us to him (Tom Wilkinson) talking about a trip he made to the titular hotel in the 1960s.
The Grand Budapest, once an illustrious establishment, is now past its prime. There The Author (now played by Jude Law) meets Zero Moustafa (F. Murray Abraham), the hotel’s owner, who tells him the story of how he came to own the hotel.
Set in the fictitious country of Zubrowka, on the brink of war in the 1930s, the story revolves around Gustave, whose reputation as a concierge extraordinaire at the Grand Budapest precedes him, and whose taste in women leans towards the elderly, wealthy and blonde.
When one such paramour, Madame D. (Tilda Swinton), is found dead in her home, her nefarious sons Dmitri and Jopling immediately accuse Gustave – particularly since she had left the aforementioned painting to him. Now, Gustave and Zero must uncover what really happened to Madame D. in order to clear Gustave’s name.
Those familiar with Anderson’s previous works like The Royal Tenenbaums and The Darjeeling Limited will instantly recognise his distinctive visual style and the delicate weaving together of humour and dark drama.
Yet, there is an expansiveness to Anderson’s work in The Grand Budapest Hotel – the exotic locales, the extended timeline, the riotous colours and the broad humour – that is both refreshing and infectious. In comparison to his most recent works, Moonrise Kingdom (2012) and Fantastic Mr Fox (2009), both of which were lovely, quiet little affairs, this is a heady, hilariously absurdist caper of a movie.
In fact, The Grand Budapest Hotel is a non-stop entertainer, borrowing its aesthetic as much from Marx Brothers’ comedies and The Three Stooges as it does from noir – this may well be Anderson’s most laugh-out-loud funny movie since Rushmore (1998). And in keeping with the film’s MacGuffin, each scene is shot like a painting in vivid hues and incredible detail.
Anderson devotees will have a great time spotting familiar faces from his previous movies; these include Jason Schwartzman, Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Edward Norton, and of course, Bill Murray, who has been in every single one of Anderson’s films.
It is, however, first-time collaborator Fiennes who steals the show as the genteel, officious yet delightfully foul-mouthed Gustave, with his mastery of subtle expressions and impeccable comedic timing.
This deserves to go down as one of Fiennes’ best performances; after all, who knew the dramatic actor had such a flair for comedy? Sharing great chemistry with him is newcomer Revolori as the poker-faced Zero, the perfect foil to Fiennes’ theatricality.
Other standouts include Dafoe (who worked with Anderson in The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou andFantastic Mr Fox), who exudes menace while barely saying a word, and Saoirse Ronan as Agatha, the love of Zero’s life.
Yet, like the jailbreak tools hidden within the pretty dessert (yes, this actually happens in the movie), a grimmer storyline is concealed within the madcap adventures, imaginative visuals and showy performances, one that is much closer to reality. The constant presence of the military and occasional glimpses of poverty serve as sobering reminders that while Zubrowka may be fictitious, its problems aren’t.
And then there’s the larger theme of impermanence that permeates the entire movie, from the ageing hotel to Gustave’s increasingly obsolete ways – The Grand Budapest Hotel is as much a love letter to the things we choose to remember and the stories we choose to tell as it is a reflection on the things we’ve lost along the way.

The Grand Budapest Hotel

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Palace Bristol Hotel in Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad)
The Grand Budapest Hotel is a 2014 comedy-drama film[9] written and directed by Wes Anderson and inspired by the writings of Stefan Zweig. It stars Ralph Fiennes as aconcierge who teams up with one of his employees to prove his innocence after he is framed for murder.
The film is a British-German co-production financed by German financial companies and film funding organizations, and was filmed entirely on location in Germany.[10][11][12]

Plot[edit]

In the present, a teenage girl approaches a monument to a writer in a cemetery. In her arms is a memoir penned by a character only known as "The Author". She begins reading a chapter about a trip he made to the Grand Budapest Hotel in 1968.
"Hirschensprung" near Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad),
with the Hotel Imperial in the background
Located in the fictional Republic of Zubrowka, a European alpine state[13] ravaged by war and poverty, he discovers that the remote, mountainside hotel has fallen on hard times. Many of its lustrous facilities are now in a poor state of repair, and its guests are few.
The Author encounters the hotel's elderly owner, Zero Moustafa, one afternoon, and they agree to meet later that evening. Over dinner in the hotel's enormous dining room, Zero tells him the tale of how he took ownership of the hotel and why he is unwilling to close it down.[14]
The owner's story begins in 1932 during the final years of the hotel's glory days, when he worked as a lobby boy. Zubrowka is on the verge of war, but this is of little concern to Gustave, the Grand Budapest's devoted concierge. When he is not attending to the needs of the hotel's wealthy clientele or managing its staff, Gustave courts a series of aging, blonde women who flock to the hotel to enjoy his "exceptional service". One of the ladies is Madame D, and Gustave spends the night with her prior to her departure.
One month later, he is informed that Madame D has died under mysterious circumstances. Taking Zero along, he races to her wake and the reading of the will, where he learns that she bequeathed him Boy with Apple, a valuable painting, in her will. This enrages her family, all of whom hoped to inherit it. Her son, Dmitri Desgoffe-und-Taxis, lashes out at Gustave. With the help of Zero, Gustave takes the painting and returns to the Grand Budapest, securing the painting in the hotel's safe. During the journey, Gustave makes a pact with Zero—in return for the latter's help, he makes Zero his heir. Gustave is shortly after arrested and imprisoned for the murder of Madame D.
Zero aids Gustave in escaping from Zubrowka's prison by sending a series of stoneworking tools concealed inside cakes made by Zero's girlfriend Agatha. Along with a group of hardened cons, Gustave digs his way out of his cell. They part ways, and Gustave teams up with Zero to prove his innocence. Their adventure takes them to a mountaintop monastery where they meet with Serge X, the only person who can provide Gustave with an alibi for the night of Madame D's murder. They are pursued by J.G. Jopling, a cold-blooded assassin who kills Serge. Zero and Gustave steal a sled and chase Jopling as he flees the monastery on skis. During a face-off at the edge of a cliff, Zero pushes the assassin to his death and rescues his mentor.
Back at the Grand Budapest, the military have commandeered the hotel and are in the process of converting it into a barracks. The outbreak of war is now imminent. A heartbroken Gustave vows to never again pass the threshold. They are joined by Agatha, Zero's love interest. She agrees to go inside to retrieve the painting but is discovered by Dmitri. A chase and a chaotic gunfight ensue before Gustave's innocence is finally proved somehow by the second copy of Madame D's second will that would come into effect if she was murdered which she gave to Serge and he subsequently hid in the back of the painting. The movie does not make it clear who actually killed Madame D (although there is, earlier in the film, a suggestive shot of a bottle labeled "strychnine" on Jopling's desk) or how Gustave is proved innocent. The will revealed that she was the mysterious owner of the Grand Budapest. She leaves much of her fortune, the hotel, and the painting to Gustave, making him fabulously wealthy in the process. He becomes one of the hotel's regular guests.
During a train journey across the border, enemy soldiers inspect Gustave and Zero's papers. Narrating the story, Zero describes Gustave being taken out and shot after defending Zero, as he did on the initial train ride in the beginning of the movie. Agatha will succumb to "the Prussian grippe" and die two years later, as well as her infant son. As his heir, Zero inherits the fortune Gustave leaves behind. Zero vows to continue his legacy at the Grand Budapest, but an implied Communist takeover of Zubrowka and the ravages of time slowly begin to take their toll on the building and its owner.
An aging and devastated Zero confesses to the Author that he cannot bring himself to close the hotel because it is his last link to his dearly departed wife and the best years of his life. The Author later departs for South America and never returns to the hotel.
Back in the present, the girl continues reading.

Cast[edit]

Production
The Grand Budapest Hotel is a British-German co-production of Grand Budapest Limited (UK) and Neunzehnte Babelsberg Film GmbH (Germany).[3][11][12][21] The film was funded by the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg as well as Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg.[11][22]
It was filmed entirely on location in Germany, mainly in Görlitz and other parts of Saxony as well as at Studio Babelsberg.[23] Principal photography began in January 2013 on location in Berlinand Görlitz.[24] One of the principal locations was the defunct Görlitzer Warenhaus, a hugeJugendstil department store with a giant atrium, one of the few such department stores in Germany to survive World War II. It served as the atrium lobby of the hotel. Filming concluded in March 2013 in Germany, with set pictures featuring Goldblum, Wilson, Dafoe, and Norton emerging online.[25]
Anderson chose to shoot the film in three aspect ratios, 1.33, 1.85, and 2.35:1, one for each timeline.[26]
For wide shots of the hotel, Anderson went with a three meter tall handmade miniature model because he felt that, since audiences would know that the shot was artificial, computer-generated effects or otherwise, "The particular brand of artificiality that I like to use is an old-fashioned one."[27] He had previously used miniatures in The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissouand more extensively in Fantastic Mr. Fox. In designing the hotel, Anderson and production designer Adam Stockhausen did extensive research, looking at vintage images at the Library of Congress of hotels and European vacation spots, as well as existing locales such as the Palace Bristol Hotel[28] and the Grandhotel Pupp in the spa town of Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad), Czech Republic and the Grandhotel Gellért in Budapest.[29][30] The model used varying scales: the hotel model was 14 feet long and 7 feet deep, the tree-spotted hill on which it stood was a different scale, and finally the funicular railway in the foreground was built to a third scale to capture it best cinematically.[27]

Soundtrack[edit]

The soundtrack is composed by Alexandre Desplat, who worked with Anderson previously onFantastic Mr. Fox and Moonrise Kingdom. It is co-produced by Anderson with music supervisor, Randall Poster; they, too, worked together on Moonrise Kingdom. The original music is by Desplat, along with Russian folk songs and pieces composed by Öse Schuppel, Siegfried Behrend, and Vitaly Gnutov,[31] and performed by the Osipov State Russian Folk Orchestra.[32] The 32 tracks, with orchestral elements, keyboard instruments and ambient drones, feature eclectic variations and central melodic themes. Flamenco guitars are used in Overture: M. Gustave H and church organs in Last Will and Testament. A musical box interlude punctuates Up the Stairs / Down the Hall, and there are haunted-house piano stylings in Mr. Moustafa. Harpsichords and strings are featured in the baroque piece, Concerto for Lute and Plucked Strings I. Moderato.[33]

Release[edit]

On 16 October 2013, it was announced that the film would be released on 7 March 2014.[34] In November 2013, the film was announced as the opening film for the 64th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2014.[35] At Berlin, the film won the Jury Grand Prix Silver Bear award.[36]

Reception[edit]

Critical response[edit]

The Grand Budapest Hotel has received critical acclaim. Film aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 92% "fresh" rating, with an average score of 8.3/10, based on reviews from 130 critics. The consensus states: "Typically stylish but deceptively thoughtful, The Grand Budapest Hotel finds Wes Anderson once again using ornate visual environments to explore deeply emotional ideas."[37]Metacritic reported a score of 87/100 (citing "universal acclaim"), based on reviews from 42 critics.[38]

Alonso Duralde of The Wrap gave the film a positive review, saying "Course after course of desserts, presented with a flourish and served so promptly that you can barely catch your breath between treats. It's not until an hour or two has passed that you realize that you haven't really eaten anything."[39] Stephanie Zacharek of The Village Voice gave the film a negative review, saying "The Grand Budapest Hotel brought out my inner Hunca Munca, of Two Bad Mice fame: This meticulously appointed dollhouse of a movie just went on and on, making me want to smash many miniature plates of plaster food in frustration."[40] Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a positive review, saying "In a very appealing if outre way, its sensibility and concerns are very much those of an earlier, more elegant era, meaning that the film's deepest intentions will fly far over the heads of most modern filmgoers."[41] Dave Calhoun of Time Out gave the film four out of five stars, saying "The film's shaggy-dog, sort-of-whodunit yarn offers laughs and energy that make this Anderson's most fun film since Rushmore."[42] J. R. Jones of Chicago Reader gave the film two out of four stars, saying "No amount of visual invention can substitute for characters, though, and Anderson doesn't so much write characters anymore as recruit a great cast and dress them up."[43] Jocelyn Noveck of the Associated Press gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying "In the end it's Fiennes who makes the biggest impression. His stylized, rapid-fire delivery, dry wit and cheerful profanity keep the movie bubbling along. Here's to further Fiennes-Anderson collaborations."[44] Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film an A-, saying "I've had my Wes Anderson breakthrough - or maybe it's that he's had his. The Grand Budapest Hotel is a marvelous contraption, a wheels-within-wheels thriller that's pure oxygenated movie play."[45]

Joe Neumaier of the New York Daily News gave the film three out of five stars, saying "As with all of Anderson's films, the magic is in the cast. Fiennes, with his rapid-fire delivery and rapier mustache, is hilarious, dapper and total perfection."[46] Peter Travers ofRolling Stone gave the film three and a half out of four stars, saying "It's a filigreed toy box of a movie, so delicious-looking you may want to lick the screen. It is also, in the Anderson manner, shot through with humor, heartbreak and a bruised romantic's view of the past."[47] Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times gave the film a positive review, saying "Anderson works so assiduously to create obsessively detailed on-screen worlds that the effect has sometimes been hermetic, even stifling. "The Grand Budapest," however, is anything but."[48] Kate Erbland of Film.com gave the film an 8.2 out of 10, saying "Anderson has abandoned a bit of his whimsical nature for the later portions of the film, but the film’s first half hour presents one of his most darling settings yet, until, of course, it all crumbles into murder, mayhem and bad renovations."[49] Ian Buckwalter of NPR gave the film a nine out of ten, saying "Grand Budapest is a culmination of the tinkly music-box aesthetic of Anderson's work to date, turned up to 11."[50] Stephen Whitty of theNewark Star-Ledger gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying "While Anderson delights in creating a fictional (but very real) mittel-Europe, he also does it with the craft of old Hollywood, using carefully made miniatures and handpainted backdrops."[51]Tim Stanley of The Daily Telegraph concurs that while normally "Anderson writes about the American aristocracy", his latest film "about the European upper-crust...gets us perfectly. Anderson understands that the elegance of the Grand Budapest is just a facade, that beneath the glitter is the cancer of greed and fascism."[52] A. O. Scott of The New York Times gave the film a positive review, saying "This movie makes a marvelous mockery of history, turning its horrors into a series of graceful jokes and mischievous gestures. You can call this escapism if you like. You can also think of it as revenge."[53]
Peter Howell of the Toronto Star gave the film four out of four stars, saying "The entire movie is like a giant, elaborately decorated cake, created by this most exacting of film craftsmen. And how tasty it is!"[54] Ty Burr of The Boston Globe gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying "With The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson is up to his old tricks but with a magnanimous new confidence that feels like a gift."[55] Bruce Ingram of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film four out of five stars, saying "It's quintessential Anderson, in other words, but also an unabashed entertainment. And that's something to see."[56] Steven Rea of The Philadelphia Inquirer gave the film four out of four stars, saying "The Grand Budapest Hotel is by far the most headlong comedic affair in Anderson's canon. It's practically Marx Brothers-ian at moments. And Fiennes - who knew he was capable of such wicked, witty timing?!"[57] Liam Lacey of The Globe and Mail gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying "From the start, it's clear Anderson is working with a new sophistication both in the vocabulary and structure of the film's voiceover narrations."[58] Lisa Kennedy of The Denver Post gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying "If a movie can be elegantly zany, this wholly imaginative, assured fable of a legendary concierge Gustave H. (Ralph Fiennes), his protégé Zero (Tony Revolori) and the murder of a countess, is it."[59] Christopher Orr of The Atlantic gave the film a positive review, saying "The comedy in The Grand Budapest Hotel is among the broadest yet undertaken by Anderson. But amid the frenzied hubbub, there are intimations of a darker, sadder history unfolding."[60] A.A. Dowd of The A.V. Club gave the film a B+, saying "Anderson’s latest invention, The Grand Budapest Hotel, may be his most meticulously realized, beginning with the towering, fictional building for which it’s named."[61]

James Berardinelli of ReelViews gave the film three out of four stars, saying "It offers an engaging 90+ minutes of unconventional, comedy-tinged adventure that references numerous classic movies while developing a style and narrative approach all its own."[62]Moira MacDonald of The Seattle Times gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying "Every frame is carefully composed like the illustrations from a beloved book (characters are precisely centered; costumes are elaborately literal); the dialogue feels both unexpected and happily familiar."[63] Colin Covert of the Star Tribune gave the film four out of four stars, saying "I'm not sure what the formal definition of a masterpiece is, but 'The Grand Budapest Hotel strikes me as something very close."[64] Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post gave the film three out of four stars, saying "If Anderson buries relatively little moral substance under lavish dollops of rich cream, at least he, like his fascinating protagonist, sustains the illusion with a marvelous grace."[65] Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle gave the film four out of four stars, saying "The movie's sad undertone saves The Grand Budapest Hotel from its own zaniness - or better yet, elevates the zaniness, making it feel like an assertion of some right to be silly, or some fundamental human expression."[66] Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune gave the film three and a half stars out of four, saying "I would call The Grand Budapest Hotel major whimsy. It's a confection with bite, featuring an ensemble led by the invaluable Ralph Fiennes, here allowed to exercise his farceur's wiles."[67] Rafer Guzman of Newsday gave the film three out of four stars, saying "The tender friendship between the wide-eyed Zero and the worldly Gustave gives this movie an emotional core that isn't always an Anderson priority."[68] David Denby of The New Yorker gave the film a positive review, saying "The opéra-bouffe plot serves as a strand of bright golden wire on which Anderson hangs innumerable encounters, scampering chases, and an archly decorative style of commentary."[69]

Box office[edit]

As of April 6, 2014, The Grand Budapest Hotel has grossed $33.6 million in North America, and $45.10 million in other countries, for a worldwide total of $69.56 million.[7] In North America, the film opened in four theaters at number 17 in its first weekend, with $811,166.[70] In its second weekend, the film moved up to number eight, grossing an additional $3,638,041.[71] In its third weekend, the film moved up to number seven, grossing $6,787,955.[72] In its fourth weekend, the film moved up to number six, grossing $8,539,795.[73] in its fifth week, the film moved up to number five, grossing $6,300,000.
The film was Anderson's most successful live action film in the UK, reaching number one on the UK box office in its third week with a gross of £6.31 million.[74] The film was also Anderson's first number one film in the UK.[74]

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