Did he just throw my cat out of the window......

Rating: 9/10 (10 November 2014)

Gustav, the concierge at a hotel situated in the Alps, becomes the centre of suspicion when one of his institution's oldest and richest patrons turns up dead, and she leaves him her most priceless work of art, a Renaissance painting of a boy with an apple.
Furious that she left nothing of value to anyone else, the woman's greedy heir uses all manner of underhanded tactics to pin her death on Gustav, and to silence anyone who questions his objectives.
This leaves Gustav's trusted lobby boy Zero to clear Gustav's name and prove that the grand lady's killer is none other than her own son......
There's so much to say about this film that's already been said, but, I've never really been a fan of Anderson's work up until this. The Life Aquatic was okay, but I found the rest of his work very overrated and a bit of an ordeal to get through.
Saying that, after seeing this, I am going to go back and see if I missed something, because this movie is something else, the flow of the narrative is simply sublime, and with so many great performances, it would have been easy for some of the cast to get lost in the mix, but wow, everyone holds their own in this, and Fiennes, wow, he's a comedy genius.
But watching the film really does remind you of cake, especially the scenes filmed in the titular hotel, it's as if Anderson has sought inspiration from the actual cakes that Gustav brings back to the hotel.
Its a solid movie, very witty, richly narrated, and the cinematography is beautiful.