Grand Budapest Hotel preceded by Hotel Chevalier

Director: Wes Anderson

2014 / 99min / DCP

Shuttling between 1985, 1968, and 1932, with different aspect ratios for each period, Anderson’s wistfully charming and deeply moving film, drawing inspiration from the sophisticated comedies of Ernst Lubitsch and the eminently civilized writing of Stefan Zweig, offers a succinct history of the nation of Zubrowka—in effect a stand-in for the whole of Mitteleuropa first subjected to the yoke of fascism, then absorbed into the dreary Eastern Bloc—as reflected in events at and around the eponymous resort, kept running with military efficiency by concierge Ralph Fiennes. Preceded by Hotel Chevalier, a sort-of companion piece to The Darjeeling Limited, featuring Jason Schwartzman and Natalie Portman, which takes place entirely within a luxury suite at a Parisian hotel.

The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014, 99 mins)
Hotel Chevalier (Wes Anderson, 2007, 13 mins)

Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures / Twentieth Century Fox

Part of Hotel Europa