Today’s motion picture is a dark comedy film with a scene set on October 19. Watch this film tonight and enjoy.
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
A girl starts reading a book by an author written in 1985 where he tells about a trip he took to the Grand Budapest Hotel in 1968. The Author meets Zero Moustafa, the owner of the hotel, who tells his story. Zero began as a lobby boy under the hotel concierge, Gustave H., who seduced the hotel’s elderly and wealthy female guests. On October 19, 1932 [17:46 – 34:13] the will reading for Madame Céline Villeneuve Desgoffe und Taxis, one of these guests is held. She has left Gustave H. a very valuable painting, which Gustave and Zero purloin and hide in the hotel safe. In return for his help, Gustave makes Zero his heir. Gustave is arrested for murdering Madame Celine. Agatha, Zero’s fiancée, smuggles tools into jail and Gustave uses them to escape. Jopling, a killer working for Madame Celine’s son and heir, pursues Zero and Gustave. They escape, but Jopling kills the only witness who can clear Gustave’s name. Since war is imminent the army has requisitioned the hotel as a barracks, but Gustave, Zero and Agatha sneak in and retrieve the painting. Hidden with it is a copy of a new will by Madame Celine that leaves everything she owned, which included the Grand Budapest Hotel to Gustave H. He makes Zero the new concierge. After Gustave is arrested and killed by a new repressive government, Zero becomes the owner of the hotel, where he lived with Agatha for two happy years before she died. Zero traded the entire balance of Madame Celine’s fortune, which he had inherited for the right to keep the Grand Budapest. The author leaves the hotel for South America. The author finishes his memoirs in 1985, which the girl continues to read as the movie ends.
Ah, yes one of those fantastically quirky films that Hollywood rarely turns out anymore. On par with Field of Dreams, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Amelie and Moonrise Kingdom. A real must see.
Producers - Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven M. Rales and Jeremy Dawson
Director - Wes Anderson
Screenwriter - Wes Anderson
Awards – The film won the Best Original Score, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design and Best Makeup and Hair Oscars. It was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and Best Film Editing at the 87th Academy Awards
Runtime – 1 hour 40 minutes
Released – February 2, 2014
Starring – Ralph Fiennes as Gustave H., Tony Revolori as Young Zero Moustafa, Adrien Brody as Dmitri Desgoffe und Taxis, Willem Dafoe as J.G. Jopling, Jeff Goldblum as Vilmos Kovacs, Saoirse Ronan as Agatha, Edward Norton as Inspector Henckels, F. Murray Abraham as Old Zero Moustafa, Mathieu Amalric as Serge X, Jude Law as The Author as a Young Man, Harvey Keitel as Ludwig, Bill Murray as Monsieur Ivan, Jason Schwartzman as Monsieur Jean, Tilda Swinton as Madame Céline Villeneuve Desgoffe und Taxis, Tom Wilkinson as The Author as an Old Man, Bob Balaban as M. Martin
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015.
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