Friday, 25 July 2014
New Movie Review: The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Keep your hands off my lobby boy!
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014): ★★★½
Directed by Wes Anderson
What a glorious, weird, artificial and joyful film this is. If you’ve seen other Wes Anderson films, the style and much of the trappings will seem intimately familiar. Like The Royal Tenenbaums, this is a film about an ensemble of oddball figures orbiting around one central, lovable oddball. Like all his films, there is very deliberate and nostalgic art direction, frame composition, and camerawork. As is usual for Anderson, he creates a giddily rich visual tapestry, delving with fetishistic verve into the tiniest minutiae of his settings. More… »
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