Review of Budapest Hotel

So what else is new? Shall we move to the Grand Budapest Hotel –It’s about time –It is about time. Which is the new film by Wes Anderson. Wes Anderson’s films are on some level they're kind of impenetrable because they are... they're so sort of tightly wound, they're so sort of precise it’s all to do with boxes within boxes, it’s stories about storytelling. Whenever you see a Wes Anderson film you know within five seconds that you’re watching Wes Anderson, even if it’s live action it looks like it’s animated, every physical move, every facial gesture is really really precise. You often have storytellers telling stories about stories, you have books as a sort of narrative device, you have chapter headings, you have changing frame sizes, you have doll's house… Everything about them it sort of screams artificea and screams construction. So the story here we begin with an author played by Tom Wilkinson, who then throws the story a younger version of himself played by Jude Law, who then hands the story over to F. Murray Abraham as Mr. Mustafa who is the sort of the figure behind the hotel Budapest.