The Grand Budapest Hotel
Academy Award × 4·National Film Registry
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The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.
What critics thought
Broadly celebrated as among Anderson's finest work, the film earns its acclaim most concretely through Ralph Fiennes's performance, which critics treated as the film's gravitational center — a reserved actor unleashed at full range. The main fault lines ran between those who found the whimsical, fragmented storytelling charming and those who felt it kept the characters emotionally underdeveloped and the film's engagement with historical darkness frustratingly lightweight.
“unbounded but carefully calibrated zeal”
Kenneth Turan·Los Angeles Times
“kitschy adventure story that feels curiously weightless, at times even arbitrary”
Vanity Fair
“Mr. Anderson is no realist. This movie makes a marvelous mockery of history, turning its horrors into a series of graceful jokes and mischievous gestures.”
A. O. Scott·The New York Times
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Cast & Crew
DirectorWes Anderson
StarringRalph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Tony Revolori, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe
ComposerAlexandre Desplat
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Academy Award × 4·National Film Registry
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.
What critics thought
Broadly celebrated as among Anderson's finest work, the film earns its acclaim most concretely through Ralph Fiennes's performance, which critics treated as the film's gravitational center — a reserved actor unleashed at full range. The main fault lines ran between those who found the whimsical, fragmented storytelling charming and those who felt it kept the characters emotionally underdeveloped and the film's engagement with historical darkness frustratingly lightweight.
“unbounded but carefully calibrated zeal”
Kenneth Turan·Los Angeles Times
“kitschy adventure story that feels curiously weightless, at times even arbitrary”
Vanity Fair
“Mr. Anderson is no realist. This movie makes a marvelous mockery of history, turning its horrors into a series of graceful jokes and mischievous gestures.”
A. O. Scott·The New York Times
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Cast & Crew
DirectorWes Anderson
StarringRalph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Tony Revolori, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe
ComposerAlexandre Desplat
Rent/Purchase