"Grand Budapest Hotel" R
Wes Anderson's quirky character dramas and oddball comedies are an acquired taste. For some they can be rapid fire, confusing and strange, but others consider them so different as to be good. Somewhere in between is this movie, a character piece that finds an all star cast in a fake town in Germany in around 1932 at a lavish hotel called the Grand Budapest.
At first, the narrator is in the 1960s telling his tale to a guest to his hotel, about how he roxse from being the bell boy to being the curator and master of an old hotel, then in decline.
In the 1930s, between the great wars, the suave hotel manager and his new apprentice, Zero, get into trouble right off, when they attend the wake of the manager's elderly lover. They are chased out by the angry family at the reading, because the lawyer is in on some kind of scam.Once the manager gets his prize, the painting of the boy with an apple, he and his bell boy flee the scene, somehow unknown to the angry family.
The killer though is after them, and it is soon revealed that this hired gun has killed the old lady and disposed of a second will. Through some mishaps though the manager ends up in jail and must forge an alliance to escape, using the bellboy and his girlfriend as accomplices, to clear his name and find the will.
The angry family is also searching for the lost painting.
All of this is connected in a bizarre fate filled series of coincidences. It seems kind of like Wes has done this kind of movie before but goes all out to make it fresh and different.
Hade it been released say next November though it could get an Oscar, but it likely won't be remembered 10 months from now.
Go and see it because it's good. See it in theaters. The actors in it have been in his other movies and are quite good, elevating it from being just about annoying people. The lead is likeable and interesting. Even the cameos are fun.
Review by Adam Browne
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