Review of Budapest Hotel
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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.