Review of the Movie «The Grand Budapest Hotel».
The Grand Budapest Hotel is a mostly comedy, but adventurous movie released in 2014 filmed in Germany.
We have great actors and actresses in it, such as Tilda Swinton, Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, etc. And great visual expectations because of the colors palette, symmetry, typography, and characteristics of other movies directed by Wes Anderson.
The story is narrated in three different times but mostly in the same place: The Budapest Hotel. It narrates how Mr Mustafa went from a service lobby boy to the very only owner of the Hotel.
This is a really enjoyable short film, which tells a really simple, must not casual, story. The character development does not take part of the writing, and mostly all of them -the characters- are not shareable people. We only see a real side of one of them -this as taking part of their intime low guard being- when Mr Gustave is in Jail and has genuine responses and actions to the other reclutes.
The aesthetic styles in which some scenes are completely taken by the characters' styles are very few. Even though the image was absolutely beautiful, it is more a construction from the whole scene, including the colors, spaces, music, etc. But the characters, even though some have their “unique styles” never take much diversity.
The drama doesn’t have a lot of things involved such as characters, places, fictional writing, etc. So the movie is mostly long scenes of simple actions. It is entertaining but simple: the story doesn’t have a lot of meaning, but it doesn’t have to as it was not meant to as most of Wes Anderson movies. This is a simple story telling with great visual arts to complemente into a satisfactory film.