"The Grand Budapest Hotel" is Wes Anderson's apotheosis, the film which is key to understanding his artistry. Indeed, his most recent film, "The French Dispatch," feels like a mere echo of "Grand Budapest."
His most visible trademarks are there. Every regular from his troupe of actors show up for parts large and small. The tone is deadpan comedy with tragedy sprinkled in. Anderson's filmmaking is quirky yet precise; he prefers center framing and adorns his shot subjects with exaggerated costume and set design. "Grand Budapest" includes all that and, combined with the use of miniatures, it looks like it was filmed in Anderson's own personal dollhouse.
Beneath the beauty and the hilarity, though, what does it all mean?
The film is the story of the eponymous, fictional hotel in the equally fictitious country of Zubrowka (named for a Polish Vodka brand). Though the story and setting is fictional, the film's inspirations weren't.
His most visible trademarks are there. Every regular from his troupe of actors show up for parts large and small. The tone is deadpan comedy with tragedy sprinkled in. Anderson's filmmaking is quirky yet precise; he prefers center framing and adorns his shot subjects with exaggerated costume and set design. "Grand Budapest" includes all that and, combined with the use of miniatures, it looks like it was filmed in Anderson's own personal dollhouse.
Beneath the beauty and the hilarity, though, what does it all mean?
The film is the story of the eponymous, fictional hotel in the equally fictitious country of Zubrowka (named for a Polish Vodka brand). Though the story and setting is fictional, the film's inspirations weren't.
- 10/29/2022
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
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