The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Grand Budapest Hotel is a 2014 comedy-drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Wes Anderson. Ralph Fiennes leads a seventeen-actor ensemble cast as Monsieur Gustave H., famed concierge of a twentieth-century mountainside resort in the fictional Eastern European country of Zubrowka. When Gustave is framed for the murder of a wealthy dowager (Tilda Swinton), he and his recently befriended protégé Zero (Tony Revolori) embark on a quest for fortune and a priceless Renaissance painting amidst the backdrop of an encroaching fascist regime. Anderson's American Empirical Pictures produced the film in association with Studio Babelsberg, Fox Searchlight Pictures, and Indian Paintbrush's Scott Rudin and Steven Rales. Fox Searchlight supervised the commercial distribution, and The Grand Budapest Hotel's funding was sourced through Indian Paintbrush and German government-funded tax rebates. Anderson and longtime collaborator Hugo Guinness conceived The Grand Budapest Hotel as a fragmented tale following a character inspired by a common friend. They initially struggled in their brainstorming, but the experience touring Europe and researching the literature of Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig shaped their vision for the film. The Grand Budapest Hotel draws visually from Europe-set mid-century Hollywood films and the United States Library of Congress's photochrom print collection of alpine resorts. Filming took place in eastern Germany from January to March 2013. French composer Alexandre Desplat composed the symphonic, Russian folk-inspired score, which expanded on his early work with Anderson. The film explores themes of fascism, nostalgia, friendship, and loyalty, and further studies analyze the function of color as an important storytelling device. The Grand Budapest Hotel premiered in competition at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival on February 6, 2014. The French theatrical release on February 26 preceded the film's global rollout, followed by releases in Germany, North America, and the United Kingdom on March 6–7. The Grand Budapest Hotel drew highly positive reviews for its craftsmanship and acting, though occasional criticism centered on the film's approach to subject matter, fragmented storytelling, and characterization. It earned $174 million in box office revenue worldwide, Anderson's highest-grossing feature to date. The film was nominated for nine awards at the 87th Academy Awards including Best Picture, winning four, and received numerous other accolades. Since its release, The Grand Budapest Hotel has been assessed as one of the greatest films of the 21st century.

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That doesn't mean I'm not going to throttle the little swamp rat.

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May I officiate, by the way? The ceremony? With pleasure. I must say, I find that girl utterly delightful. Flat as a board, enormous birthmark the shape of Mexico over half her face, sweating for hours on end in that sweltering kitchen while Mendl, genius though he is, looms over her like a hulking gorilla.

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Yet without question, without fail, always and invariably, she's exceedingly lovely. Why?

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Because of her purity.

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She admires you as well, Monsieur Gustave. Does she? Very much. That's a good sign, you know. It means she "gets it." That's important.

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Don't flirt with her.

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LIEUTENANT: A radio telegram was delivered and signed for by the girl at 4:00 AM. The envelope was found near the body, but its contents were missing.

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However, the telegraph office always keeps a carbon of the ticker tape for 24 hours. I copied it down. It reads as follows, "Pack your things stop. "Be ready to leave at moment's notice stop. "Hide-out is vicinity of Gabelmeister's Peak stop. "Destroy this message all my love full stop."

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Where's the basket?

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PUMP ATTENDANT: Where you headed, mister?

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Skiing? Sledding? Mountain climbing?

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Three Klubecks.

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MR. MOUSTAFA: By express wireless, I wrote Agatha with instructions to move to our pre-arranged hideout, a Gypsy caravan on the outer Nebelsbad road, while Monsieur Gustave and I continued east into the Zubrowkian Alps, toward our high-altitude rendezvous with the butler Serge X.

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As a precaution, we disembarked quietly in the freight yard just outside the station.

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L'air de Panache.

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It's a hell of a view. I give them that, for what's it's worth. I agree.

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"'Tis oft'-remarked, no single, falling-flake does any other "in its pure and perfect form..." Somebody's coming.

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Are you Monsieur Gustave of the Grand Budapest Hotel in Nebelsbad? Uh-huh. Get on the next cable car.

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Are you Monsieur Gustave of the Grand Budapest Hotel in Nebelsbad? Uh-huh. Switch with me.

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Are you Monsieur Gustave of the Grand Budapest Hotel in Nebelsbad?

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