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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
on some level they're
kind of impenetrable because
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 artifice
and screams construction.
So the story here we begin
with an author played by Tom Wilkinson
who then throws the story
about 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.
who then throws the story further back
to his younger self, 'zero',
who is learning his trade
in the nineteen thirties
in this extraordinary building
looks like a great big cake
a sort of huge sort of confection of a building,
in which the central...
every life revolves around Mr. Gustav
who is the concierge brilliantly played,
it has to be said, by Ralph Fiennes
in his finest.
People don't often think about Ralph Fiennes
as being a comic actor,
you know they think
in the serious stuff he’s done,
in fine form as Mr. Gustav
here he is explaining to 'zero'
the young Mr. Mustafa,
whom remember we’ve got back to him.
live in the hotel as a bellboy.