A Masterpiece.

Rating: 10/10 (14 October 2019)

Quite simply, 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' is a masterpiece. I'll even take it a step further by saying, that in my personal opinion, as someone whom has rated over 650 feature films on IMDB, it is firmly within the top ten. The reason? It has some of the best world-building in any film.
I'm not simply talking about production design (though that was an Oscar well earned), I'm talking about replicating the kind of atmosphere associated with Europe within the works of Stefan Zweig. Anderson has taken something based on truth, and he's added his own wild, quirky and fictional essence to it. What do you get? Something original, yet surprisingly believable.
Don't get me wrong, the film has a spectacular story, a great narrative, a great cast, with great performances, great costumes, great music, great cinematography (the use of different aspect ratios for different time periods is very clever, by the way). But overall, the thing which makes me truly love and adore this film is that it creates a world that I'd love to be in more than any other film world.
It's escapism.