My ★★★★ review of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) on letterboxd: https://boxd.it/9dA3Ax
boxd.itA ★★★★ review of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)"Anderson is a director who digests his influences, and in The Grand Budapest Hotel we get a collision of genres peppered with plenty of cinematic borrowing. It’s a story of Fitzgerald-age glam, and Nazi film menace. It’s a comedic caper reminiscence of Sellers’ 1960s comedies, as well as French filmmakers like Jacques Tati and a dash of Jean Renoir. But all of it, of course, is distinctly Wes Anderson: the symmetry of the shots; the facsimile of the sets; the baroque floridity of the language, punctuated by sharp, laconic punch lines. It’s a funny movie that is driven also by
