{"id":1903,"date":"2014-03-16T16:23:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T23:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moviesharkdeblore.com\/site\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2014-10-12T16:29:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T23:29:44","slug":"the-grand-budapest-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/behindthelensonline.net\/site\/reviews\/the-grand-budapest-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL"},"content":{"rendered":"

By: debbie lynn elias<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Wes Anderson has typically been a \u201cmust see\u201d director with me.\u00a0 Some of his films, like The Royal Tennenbaums<\/em>, delight with familial dysfunction and unconventionality, others like The Darjeeling Limited<\/em> dazzle with color and metaphor while adventures such as\u00a0 Fantastic Mr. Fox<\/em> and Moonrise Kingdom<\/em> are just plain fun.\u00a0 Everything Anderson touches bodes superb yet eclectic performances with visuals that stray from the \u201cnorm\u201d, showing his creativity and fully sensorial ability to engage us \u201coutside the box\u201d.\u00a0 And as engaging and entertaining as Anderson\u2019s works have been up to this time, nothing matches the beauty, elegance and hilarity of THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL.\u00a0 Magnificent and magical, once you check-in, you\u2019ll never want to check-out.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A perfect blend of color and colorful characters, from the first moments of the film, you know this is the place you want to be, this is the place in which you want to not just visit but reside, these are people you want to know.\u00a0 Anderson transports us through time to an age of splendor and grandeur that with the story\u2019s narrative telling, takes on an even rosier tone, warmly aged by the passage of time but still vibrant and alive.\u00a0 The production design and creation of the hotel itself is beyond reproach.\u00a0 Grandeur at its most grand and most beautiful.\u00a0 A five star production for a five star hotel.<\/p>\n

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This is the story of Grand Budapest Hotel concierge M. Gustave and his young Lobby Boy apprentice, Zero.\u00a0\u00a0 Gustave is perfunctory perfection and propriety – at least in public.\u00a0 A \u201cdandy\u201d in the truest sense of its old world meaning, Gustave\u2019s entire world revolves around the Hotel and its guests.\u00a0 He has a pride not seen in today\u2019s society.\u00a0 He embraces elegance and refinement and believes in attention to details and above all, impeccable manners and in making certain that everyone with whom he comes in contact with feels special, important, and as if they are the only person that matters to Gustave; a particularly handy skill to have when cavorting with countless beauties both young and old alike.\u00a0 He gives the world of the Grand Budapest Hotel a savoir faire that may or may not mirror the world outside of the pink palace.<\/p>\n

Zero is a young immigrant who has lost his family to war.\u00a0 His life is, in effect, a zero.\u00a0 But M. Gustave sees something in the boy and takes him under his wing, determined to make him into a mini-Gustave.\u00a0 After all, Gustave can\u2019t live forever.\u00a0 Or can he?<\/p>\n

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While learning his trade as Gustave\u2019s devoted right-hand boy, the world around Zero and Gustave is changing.\u00a0 A treasured and cherished guest of the hotel (and frequent benefactress of the attentions of Gustave) is found dead in her hotel room.\u00a0 As comes as no surprise, with her great wealth comes great family squabbles with probate leading to hilarity, hijinks and murder(s) which only escalate with Gustave named as a beneficiary.\u00a0 Nazis, prison, passage of time, espionage, high speed ski slope chases a la Hitchcock, romance between Zero and the local bakery girl Agatha, and of course, the adventures of The Society of Crossed Keys all revolve around THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL with each adventure as fun and intriguing as the next.<\/p>\n

Written and directed by Anderson, based on a story by Anderson and Hugo Guinness, THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL unfolds by way of voice over narrative told by an aging writer who is now writing a book on the events of his younger self and particularly, the story of THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL as was told to him decades ago by a then elder gentlemen, the owner and once the young Lobby Boy, Zero.\u00a0 Weaving a tapestry of tales that have an old world feel to them, filled with murder, madness and greed, Nazis, prisons and death squads, and a cast of characters to satisfy every appetite,\u00a0 multiple narratives intersect as the temporal lines blur and we are immersed in the adventures of M. Gustave, Zero and THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL.\u00a0 According to Anderson, the idea for the story began some six years ago.\u00a0 \u201cIt was the first part of the Gustav story. We had that character and we had that inspiration in real life for this character. We wrote a section of it but we couldn\u2019t really figure out what happened next. There was no hotel and he wasn\u2019t a concierge or anything. It was only many years later when I had become interested in Stefan Zweig\u2019s work, which I\u2019d never read before, and I had this thought to do something rather Zweig-like, and to use this character we had and this bit of story we had and this idea that it would be in a hotel and [M. Gustav] would be a concierge. Then it all seemed to have the key ingredients.\u201d\"budapest<\/p>\n

The core story and characters of Gustav and Zero touch my heart.\u00a0 I feel as if I know them from Old World stories told me by my own grandparents about the life of the European aristocrats and privileged.\u00a0 The essence of these images which I have long held in my own head are captured to a tee, not only through Anderson’s script, but his visuals and in the performances, particularly that of Ralph Fiennes.\u00a0 The story never falters and is utterly and completely engaging.\u00a0 I was as rapt as a child being read to aloud.\u00a0 The voice over narrative works well and thematically compliments the opening shot of a book entitled THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL and a girl with hotel room keys placing them on a statue in a town square.<\/p>\n

As the young author and adult Zero, respectively, the quiet notes of Jude Law and F. Murray\u00a0 Abraham capture your attention as does their perfect posture and table manners.\u00a0 And as much I appreciate every element of the story and performances (The Society of Cross Keys – a privileged group of elite concierges to the most exclusive hotels in Europe – is cutely funny!), the true mastery comes from Fiennes and newcomer Tony Revolori.\u00a0 As M. Gustave and Zero, these two are perfection.\u00a0 The comedic timing of each, individually and in tandem, is meticulous, rapier and hilarious.\u00a0 Fiennes is the embodiment of what one imagines when someone is described as a “dandy” but with more pride.\u00a0 These two just soar.\u00a0 And as wonderful as the timing is with dialogue, Fiennes has an air of physical comedy that is refreshing, light and captivating.\u00a0 The posture, the prim striding walk, the military precision.\u00a0 I was giddy with glee watching him.<\/p>\n

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Saoirse Ronan is charm personified as the young baker at the famous Mendl\u2019s (and the apple of Zero\u2019s eye) while Adrien Brody and Willem Dafoe are coal black comedic fodder that is delicious.\u00a0 As Jopling, Dafoe is the perfect evil henchman to Brody\u2019s murderous Dmitri .\u00a0 Dafoe rattles your cage with his methodical darkness while Brody clad all in true deep black looks almost cartoonish, but very reminiscent of Ray Bolger as the evil Barnaby in Disney’s “Babes in Toyland”.\u00a0 Joining in the murder mystery narrative is Jeff Goldblum as Deputy Kovacs.\u00a0 Goldblum is his usual wordsmithy self, steeped in a world of chaos while executing perfunctory nervous calm – and that’s what makes him so funny.\u00a0 Not to be believed in Tilda Swinton who is aged to her 90’s with ostentacious over-the-top make-up and prosthetics to the point of being unrecognizable in her transformation into Dowager Madame D.\u00a0 The result is pure comedic fodder when playing opposite Fiennes\u2019 Gustave.<\/p>\n

Beyond entertaining is a montage involving The Society of Crossed Keys, the members of which are played by Anderson regulars, among them, Bill Murray, Bob Balaban, Fisher Stevens, Owen Wilson and Jason Schwartzman.<\/p>\n

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Significant is that the story and visuals go hand-in-hand.\u00a0 So co-dependent and intertwined, one element fails without the other.\u00a0 The visuals are as geometrically precise as Gustav’s impeccable manners and service.\u00a0 Beyond aesthetically appealing, and a tool I haven\u2019t seen anyone pull out of the director\u2019s toolbox before, is the lensing in different aspect ratios (proportion of width to height within a film) as they correspond to the different times in film history.\u00a0 At the height of the hotel\u2019s glory in the 1930’s, Anderson shoots with what is known as \u201cthe Academy ratio\u201d, 1.37:1, which appears more boxy and square and was the lensing norm starting in 1932.\u00a0 For the 1960’s with the hotel in decline, Anderson goes with a 2.35:1 aspect ratio for a more widescreen appearance while present day and the later scenes occurring in 1985 are lensed in the current 1.85:1.\u00a0\u00a0 The collective result is not only an effective storytelling tool, but adds to the immersive texture and beauty of the visual palette.<\/p>\n

For Anderson, it was his own personal aesthetic and desire to do this multi-aspect ratio lensing.\u00a0 \u201cI always wanted to do a movie in that square shape. . .it\u2019s the look you associate with movies of the period of our story.\u00a0 But I always wanted to do it with a movie that wasn\u2019t a period movie.\u201d\u00a0 Working with his cinematographer Bob Yeoman, \u201c[T]he idea of having different shapes just sort of came out of, \u2018but now we have this \u201860s part, but that\u2019s not particularly suited to the Academy ratio because it doesn\u2019t represent that time.\u2019 . . We did it because now you can, and it used to be really that you couldn\u2019t.\u201d\u00a0 As for obstacles and challenges of fusing these different aspect ratios together, thanks to digital delivery, the technical aspect was easily overcome.\u00a0 It was the legal aspect that became a bit tricky.\u00a0 \u201cThe obstacles or challenges was the lawyers or whoever the lawyers were\u201d as on reading of Anderson\u2019s intent \u201c[were like] Whoa, whoa, whoa! You\u2019re obligated to deliver a movie in the aspect ratio of 1.85:1 or 2.35:1 at a length of between 90 and 120 minutes\u201d which resulted in Anderson\u2019s assurances of \u201cNo, it\u2019s okay, it\u2019s okay.\u00a0 It\u2019s going to be fine.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 The result is beyond fine.<\/p>\n

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Adam Stockhausen\u2019s production design is flawless and demanding of Oscar consideration with the crown jewel being THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL itself.\u00a0 While the hotel is a mirror image of the essence and aesthetic of the character of M. Gustav, according to Stockhausen, \u201c[it] grew out of the location. It\u2019s the department store, which is called the Warenhaus now. . .It was the perfect spot and it has a structure of its own with this soaring atrium and beautiful chandeliers and stained glass ceiling.\u201d\u00a0 With his own palpable excitement, Anderson is quick to note \u201cIt has a vaulted staircase that crisscrosses over it\u201d, something that plays center stage to the framing of shots.\u201d\u00a0 Relying on extensive research in meticulously recreating even the most minuscule detail, \u201cWe had been looking together at all these old images of hotels. . .So we had all these inspirations to sort of apply when we had this place.\u201d\u00a0 The result is stunning.\u00a0 Breathtaking beauty and elegance that we see transform from its\u2019 gold-leaf edged pink facade to weathered warm woods with golden candlelit tones that hold the mysteries of age.\u00a0 Calling on Yeoman\u2019s cinematography, the viewing experience becomes fully sensory and tactile with each design texture, each gold leaf inset on a marble column.\u00a0 So lux, so distinctive, it’s as if you can reach out and touch them on screen.<\/p>\n

The use of miniatures blended with digital technology adds more layers of texture and detail.\u00a0 As Stockhausen describes, \u201cWe went with the miniatures, which was a lot of stuff.\u00a0 There was the introduction to the hotel, the mountaintop observatory and the whole skiing\/sledding\/bobsledding sequence. It was all miniature work and it\u2019s a much more old-fashioned way [than CGI].\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Expounding, Anderson notes, \u201c[W]hen we do this stuff, we use some paintings, we use some miniatures, we use some stuff they might have used in Georges Melies-type movies, as old as anything. But it\u2019s digital galore. I mean, at least half of the shots in the movie have some kind of digital element \u2013 something we\u2019ve modified or polished or sped up one thing in the frame or replaced a bit of signage and all of that kind of stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As is so key with Anderson films, color is significant and each palette tells its own story.\u00a0 One look and you get a sense of temporal history.\u00a0 Red, pink and gold are marvelously utilized.\u00a0 Most appreciative is that pink is one shade of pink.\u00a0 Reds are one shade of red.\u00a0 There is no tonal muting and mixing with a specific color.\u00a0 Again, distinctive perfection.<\/p>\n

But hold on a minute!\u00a0 What’s up with composer Alexandre Desplat?\u00a0 WOW! Never would I have imagined the scoring as being Desplat as the compositions and orchestrations use a “non-orchestral” blend of instruments that is mind-blowing and refreshingly unique and original.\u00a0 Lilting and light throughout, the score and individual music pieces add their own textures to the tapestry of the hotel and the story of Zero\u00a0 Moustafa.\u00a0 Signature tones are distinguishable for characters and story shifts.\u00a0 Lovely, lovely, lovely.<\/p>\n

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The underlying societal commentary is telling and heartbreaking.\u00a0 Such beauty, such dignity, such refinement and all juxtapositioned against dark times in world history and darkness in humanity.\u00a0 A time and place preserved now in one grand little hotel where memories and magic still live and breathe.\u00a0 A celebration of time spent, time lost, time remembered and time cherished in the hallowed halls of THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Written and Directed by Wes Anderson based on a story by Anderson and Hugo Guinness<\/p>\n

Cast:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Saoirse Ronan, Jude Law, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton, Harvey Keitel, Tony Revolori<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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