The Vidiot Reviews

Rating: 8/10 (9 June 2014)

The Grand Budapest Hotel
Instead of robes, hotels should offer guests complimentary HAZMAT suits.
Auspiciously, the accommodations at the alpine resort in this comedy are immaculate - because it's mostly empty.
There are a few souls. Among them a writer (Jude Law) interested in the hotel's history, and the owner, Zero (F. Murray Abraham), who's happy to regale him with it over dinner.
In 1932, under the tutelage of the overly committed concierge, Monsieur Gustave (Ralph Fiennes), Zero (Tony Revolori) gains employment at the hotel.
When a deceased dowager (Tilda Swinton) bequeaths Gustave a valuable painting, it sets off a chain of events that lands him in prison.
From the quirky characters, to the pastel aesthetic and the subtle sophistication, this latest offering from director Wes Anderson has his idiosyncratic and affable fingerprints all over it.
Furthermore, the Bible is the only item in a hotel room likely to be covered in biological fluid.
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