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Words of wisdom from Peter Bradshaw - or, you really need to see The Grand Budapest Hotel to experience the performance of the year: Gustave is energetic and exacting, taking a passionate pride in the high standards of his establishment and ruling the staff with a rod of iron. Like them, he is kitted out in a Ruritanian purple livery which matches the hotels decor. Gustave affects an air of genial worldliness and deferential intimacy with the hotels grander clientele, and despite the quasi-military correctness of his bearing in dealing with his subordinates, Gustave can also lapse into high-camp familiarity with the guests. Fiennes is absolutely brilliant in all this. I can imagine Christoph Waltz or Dirk Bogarde in the role, but neither would have been as good.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 21:42:35 +0000

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