Dir: Wes Anderson
2014
*****
Wes Anderson is best known for his unique and vibrant visual style. The Grand Budapest Hotel is his largest, most challenging film to date but something of a change of pace as far as the storytelling goes. It's clearly a Wes Anderson film but the storytelling technique is different, more subtle than his previous work. This film is inspired by the writing of Stefan Zweig and captures the essence of his words perfectly. What you don't see is up to the viewer to interpret, in achieving this Wes Anderson has incorporated the very same feelings we have when reading a great book. No easy feat and I'm not sure anyone has achieved this so perfectly before now, apart from maybe Jean Cocteau. It's safe to say that the whole really is greater than the some of its parts with this one and although it's not my favorite Anderson film, I think it might me his greatest achievement so far.
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