the best movie in years!

Rating: 9/10 (1 June 2014)

The Grand Budapest Hotel is the best movie I have watched in years! It begins by a very serious introduction from the well spoken author, which is not really relevant to the story itself, but gives an idea of the movie itself - when the author is interrupts by the kids. Every episode in this movie contains/ends with a twist. Every twist will get you to smile. The name and the synapses of the movie is a little misleading; although the story is set originally in Budapest during the war, this is used only as a frame, and less as part of the adventure itself. The same events could take place at another time, at another place. This is not to say that the frame doesn't add to the storyline, it actually gives some beautiful heart-touching aspects. Although it's set at the beginning of the last era, the pace of the movie represents nowadays: fast, nonstop, keeps the watchers interested at all times - not a boring second. This is not the movie you check your phone during. Serious stuff happens there, but nothing is too big for the characters. Oh the characters! So original, so funny, so likable, I wish I could see them again. Each and every one of them, the dead and the living. This movie should get awards for everything: writing, directing, acting, filming, the rest... I was laughing during and crying a little at the end. And I wanted to watch it again. That's what happens in good movies.