The grand Budapest hotel
Wes Anderson’s historical drama is one of his — if not the — most spectacular. It’s rare to find a movie that can switch between humor and solemnity with grace, but The Grand Budapest Hotel does so with the charm of a seasoned hotel concierge. Ralph Fiennes headlines a wonderful cast in a story that explores what it feels like to stand on the precipice of a dying era and the dawn of a more terrifying one. Set in a fictional Eastern European country during the 1930s, M. Gustave is a hotel concierge at the Grand Budapest, which primarily rooms wealthy elderly ladies desperate to cling to their golden years. The story is told as a giant flashback through the eyes of an old man who used to work as the hotel’s lobby boy as he reminisces about a time when there were still “faint glimmers of civilization.” Eclectic, humorous — The Grand Budapest Hotel will live forever as an absolute gem.