The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014): Wes Andersons bitter-sweet fable about solitude featuring a heart-wrenching performance from Ralph Fiennes The Grand Budapest Hotel is the latest offering from the American filmmaker Wes Anderson. The Grand Budapest Hotel premiered at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize. It’s star-studded ensemble cast includes the likes of Ralph Fiennes. F. Murray Abraham, Edward Norton, Jude Law, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Tilda Swinton, and Harvey Keitel. A unique blend of comedy, satire, and magic-realism, The Grand Budapest Hotel, as a work of cinematic art, cannot be deemed original in its totality, for it borrows heavily from such luminaries as Ernst Lubitsch, Jacques Tati, Alfred Hitchcock, and Stanley Kubrick, but, in its essence, it’s much more than a pastiche of sorts; vintage Wes Anderson’s creative genius. The Grand Budapest Hotel is an important work of cinematic art that offers entertainment and food for thought in equal parts. As a powerful treatise on solitude and nihilism, the movie harks back to the motifs explored by Gabriel García Márquez in One Hundred Years a Solitude and Love in Time of Cholera. The Grand Budapest Hotel has its share of incongruities and anachronisms but that doesn’t prevent the movie from weaving its magic on the viewers. Coming to the all-important question: Is “The Grand Budapest Hotel” Wes Anderson’s best film till date? Well, perhaps, yes… but, frankly speaking, that’s for the time to decide! For the time being, it will be safe to say that it’s definitely his most accessible film yet. A must watch! The full review can be at: apotpourriofvestiges/2014/06/the-grand-budapest-hotel-2014-wes.html #TheGrandBudapestHotel #WesAnderson #RalphFiennes
Posted on: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 15:40:45 +0000
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