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–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'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 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
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.