Rent The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
3.8 of 5 from 1371 ratings
1h 35min
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- Synopsis:
- Film recounts the adventures of Gustave H., a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars; and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting; a raging battle for an enormous family fortune; a desperate chase on motorcycles, trains, sleds, and skis; and the sweetest confection of a love affair - all against the backdrop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent.
- Actors:
- Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Harvey Keitel, Jude Law, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Saoirse Ronan, Jason Schwartzman, Léa Seydoux, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson, Owen Wilson, Tony Revolori, Larry Pine, Giselda Volodi, Florian Lukas
- Directors:
- Wes Anderson
- Producers:
- Wes Anderson, Jeremy Dawson, Steven Rales, Scott Rudin
- Writers:
- Stefan Zweig, Wes Anderson, Hugo Guinness
- Others:
- Wes Anderson, Milena Canonero, Alexandre Desplat, Pawel Wdowczak, Christopher Scarabosio, Robert Yeoman, Barney Pilling, Adam Stockhausen, Anna Pinnock, Wayne Lemmer
- Studio:
- 20th Century Fox
- Genres:
- Comedy
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- Awards:
2015 BAFTA Best Original Screen Play
2015 BAFTA Best Production Design
2015 Oscar Best Original Score
2015 Oscar Best Costume Design
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 07/07/2014
- Run Time:
- 95 minutes
- Languages:
- English Audio Description Dolby Digital 5.1, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Mixed
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
- Bonus:
- Bill Murray Tours the Town
- Vignettes: Kunstmuseum Zubrowka Lecture
- The Society of the Crossed Keys
- Mendl's Secret Recipe
- Promotional Featurettes: The Making Of 'The Budapest Hotel'
- Cast
- Wes Anderson
- Stills Gallery
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Reviews (14) of The Grand Budapest Hotel
A hugely entertaining film - The Grand Budapest Hotel review by LR
The Grand Budapest Hotel fully delivers on its promise of a colourful, racy, old-fashioned tale set in Middle Europe. There is a kaleidoscope of characters and among them strides the wonderful, imperious Gustav H, manager of the hotel. Gustav H (played with real zest and delight by Ralph Fiennes) is introducing the new bell-boy to the ways of the hotel and so we the audience are also initiated into the little cosmos of the place - the rooms, the guests, the staff, the routines, the secrets and everything that goes to create the Grand Budapest Hotel. The narrative pace is brisk and the characters are varied and engaging. The story tends towards hyperbole and exaggeration, but the director and the actors ensure that the result is comedy and we accept the excesses as part of the fun. A great entertainment.
3 out of 3 members found this review helpful.
Must see!!! - The Grand Budapest Hotel review by ND
I was really looking forward to this film, which usually means I'm left feeling a little disappointed. From start to finish I had a smile on my face, there is no point in telling you more than that. Best film iv seen In a long time.
1 out of 1 members found this review helpful.
Found to be very disappointing. - The Grand Budapest Hotel review by BE
I was really looking forward to this movie but have no charitable words for it. It came across as stylised rubbish, empty and unfunny. I gave up half way thru. Ho hum!
0 out of 1 members found this review helpful.
Critic review
The Grand Budapest Hotel review by George Hooper - Cinema Paradiso
Welcome to the Grand Budapest, a place of debauchery, fine service and some seriously unusual antics, and thats just from the renowned concierge/manager Gustave H (Ralph Fiennes). The Grand Budapest is also a place of unwavering loyalty, emotional confessions and more heart that you know what to do with. My point being, this is a fine follow up to Moonrise Kingdom and a great addition to the Wes Anderson collection.
The film follows Gustave and his relationship with new lobby boy Zero (Tony Revolori) as they are sent on a mission to prove that they own a painting passed down to Gustave by one of his patrons. However he must face off with her conniving son Dmitri (Adrien Brody) and his henchman Jopling (Willem Dafoe), a menacing man intent on protecting the family. With the help of the Budapest staff as well as Zero’s girlfriend Agatha (Saoirse Ronan) they might just get out of this sticky situation with the painting and their lives.
The best part of The Grand Budapest isn’t the usual Anderson style, the quirky comedy or the powerhouse comedic performance by Fiennes, its the fact that the film deals in weighty topics but never lets it control the tempo of the story or the power of the laughs. In fact I could compare Budapest to American Graffiti, a film that dealt with tough topics but never let it guide the uplifting story. Both films finished on an elated notes only to leave you pondering if what you saw was truly ‘happy’.
That being said Budapest wouldn’t work without the awe inspiring turn by Fiennes as he bites into everything Anderson gives him with gleeful abandon. Gustave is a delightfully giddy character, one never disheartened by life. He is a man who lives life to the fullest while taking advantage of its little pleasures. The story might be told by Zero but it would be nothing without Mr Gustave H, the funniest and campest Wes Anderson character in years.