Great homage to a gone era

Rating: 8/10 (9 March 2014)

Great, how Amercian Filmmakers have discovered the Sächsische Schweiz and Görlitz. The shots in this film are beautiful and dreamy, it almost seems unreal. This part of Germany had also inspired Karl May to write his Winnetou, Apache Gold novels, supposedly never even having been to the US. The cast is fun to watch, it is amazing to see Ralph Fiennes again, Edward Norton, Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric. Adrien Brody and Jeff Golfblum make some very nice choices. Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Saoirse Ronan and Jude Law are so funny, they just use the right amount of slapstick. Harvey Keitel looks like no time passed passed since making "The piano". What a great ensemble. There are also some nice references to Sir Alfred Hitchcock and Roman Polanski. If you are a Wes Anderson and Stefan Zweig Fan, The Grand Budapest Hotel is a lot of fun.