Review: Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel" is an emotionally and intellectually resonant delight
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If I see another film this year I enjoy and am moved by as much as Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, I will, quite frankly, be stunned. It is always a joy to experience a new film by a director one regards highly among their personal favorites, but when a beloved filmmaker delivers something truly, astonishingly transcendent, even when judged only in relation to that filmmaker’s own canon, that is a special occasion indeed, and it is exactly what Anderson has delivered here. To say the man is working at the pinnacle of his aesthetic prowess would be a tremendous understatement. Cinema has never looked or sounded more breathtaking, immersive, or imaginative as this, and rarely has it been assembled and delivered with such energy and precision. Anderson seems less of a filmmaker here than a magician, and those who allow themselves to be cast under his spell are in for one of the most exuberantly plotted, tightly paced, and emotionally engaging cinematic experiences in years. From areas technical, narrative, intellectual, thematic, and character-based,
Review: Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel" is an emotionally and intellectually resonant delight
Review: Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest…
Review: Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel" is an emotionally and intellectually resonant delight
If I see another film this year I enjoy and am moved by as much as Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, I will, quite frankly, be stunned. It is always a joy to experience a new film by a director one regards highly among their personal favorites, but when a beloved filmmaker delivers something truly, astonishingly transcendent, even when judged only in relation to that filmmaker’s own canon, that is a special occasion indeed, and it is exactly what Anderson has delivered here. To say the man is working at the pinnacle of his aesthetic prowess would be a tremendous understatement. Cinema has never looked or sounded more breathtaking, immersive, or imaginative as this, and rarely has it been assembled and delivered with such energy and precision. Anderson seems less of a filmmaker here than a magician, and those who allow themselves to be cast under his spell are in for one of the most exuberantly plotted, tightly paced, and emotionally engaging cinematic experiences in years. From areas technical, narrative, intellectual, thematic, and character-based,