2014 · comedy · drama
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Directed by Wes Anderson1h 40m2014
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.
Our read: The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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Warm, breathless, gentle comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- brisk
- inventive
- tender
- twisty
- signature
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