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| Year of first release: 2014 | |
| Director: Wes Anderson | |
| Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori | |
| Country: USA | |
| Genre: Comedy | |
| Conditions of visioning: 12.03.2014, Schauburg | |
| Synopsis: The adventures of Monsieur Gustave, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune -- all against the back-drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent. | |
| Review: The movie is full of humour showing black humour, absurd situations and pictural humour. The absurdity of these times in Central Europe is more humourfull than the absurdity related by Franz Kafka in his stories. Wes Anderson claims being inspired by Stephan Zweig for this movie and this makes this author the next on my booklist. The History is turned into ridicule with a huge amount of great actors in small caricatural roles with very caricatural dialogues, especially for Ralph Fiennes. They all embody these roles perfectly. For each actor or scene there is one historical/psychological innuendo/reference. This makes an efficient comedy but relatively constrained so that there is no big surprise once you got presented the characters. The directing is also fun especially with the mixing of animation and real acting. On top of it, there have been two shorts shown before the main movie. Directed for Wes Anderson by an assistant Youyou Yang. These are also creative even if not blowing and therefore deserve a good place in JoRafCinema! Shortcut A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMLeqxuYzsw and Shortcut B https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4ed4SMQm8k |
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Rating: 7 /10
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Thursday, March 27, 2014
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
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After hearing a lot about this movie and although the director was unknown to me, I went to see it on 29.03.2014 at the CITY cinema, and I loved it!
ReplyDeleteThe reasons are the colors, the mathematical framing (everything is alwys perfectly centered and when there is movement it is only rotation and translation), the funny story (all in details), the great play of many known actors (I particlarly liked Willem Dafoe), the discreet animation scenes, and the music perfectly coordinated with all this.
I noticed unexpected references to Hitchcock (the wordless hide-and-seek chase in a museum) and to Frank Miller's Sin City (some 2-tone shots of characters framed by a door).
Most of all, I found it refreshing as it is not the kind of movie I usually watch. My rating: 8/10.