The Grand Hotel Budapest
Hello! Crazy Movie Lovers.
Today, the movie I would like to introduce is "The Grand Hotel Budapest" filmed by Wes Anderson.
The story begins in the 1930s, The Grand Budapest Hotel is a popular European ski resort, presided over by concierge Gustave H(Ralph Fiennes). Zero, a junior lobby boy(my favaourite character in this movie), becomes Gustave's friend and protege. Gustave prides himself on providing first-class service to the hotel's guests, including satisfying the sexual needs of the many elderly women who stay there. When on of Gustave's lovers dies myseriously, Gustave finds himself the recipient of a priceless painting and the chief suspect in her murder.
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| The Grand Hotel Budapest - Fox Searchlight Pictures |
One of the significant features of this movie was its sensational use of colours. As the movie goes on, you will be thoroughly impressed by its colourful furnitures, lamps, and even uniforms! The "unrealistic" colours, I said it because I would barely see a hotel where painted its walls and lifts in red. Nevertheless, these sensational colours along with actors/actresses' actings somewhat makes you feel like watch a musical, show rathan than a movie.
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| Fox Searchlight Pictures |
Through complex narrative framework, which itself is a mockery of all these films that are being narrated by someone and is also being an excuse for not being too realistic, we get to a story of a young lobby boy, Zero Moustafa and Gustave H. Many of the female guests of the hotel mainly come to enjoy Gustave's company. When one of these ladies passes away, Gustave sends Zero on a train for her mansion. Soon he's blamed for her murder and hunted by plice led by Edward Norton and a grim-faced assassin payed by Willem Dafoe. There also is a love story between two young teens - Zero and Agatha(Saoirse Ronan) who has a birth mark in the shape of Mexico.
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| Fox Searchlight Pictures |
Overall, my conclusion on this movie is that "The Grand Htoel Budapest" is an inspiration, a well-made musical, a walk through a colourful galleries. The sets, moels, andgles and even the most nondescript characters come to life each on their own and together as a symphony of art! I would suggest this movie to watch on lazy sunnyday!
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| 4 Stars |
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