The Grand Budapest Hotel
Nostalgia is a major theme in Anderson's repertoire. "The Grand Budapest Hotel" universe is envisioned with nostalgic yearning, where characters perpetuate the "illusion of a time where they don't belong", the consequence of not so much the recapture of a vanished era than a romanticizing of the past. Some critics suggest that the film's nonlinear narrative structure provides "profound" subtext of the science of human memory, whereas others saw "The Grand Budapest Hotel" as an introspection of Anderson's sensibilities both as a writer and as a director. According to the academic Donna Kornhaber, "The Grand Budapest Hotel" reinforces the increasingly dark subtext of collectivism defining late period Anderson films.