“There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity... He was one of them. What more is there to say?”

This week we take a closer look at one of director Wes Anderson’s most popular and acclaimed films: The Grand Budapest Hotel, as well as briefly review the films we logged on our Letterboxd dairies in the past week.

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The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

A MURDER CASE OF MADAM D. WITH ENORMOUS WEALTH AND THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS EVENTS SURROUNDING HER SUDDEN DEATH!

“The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.”

Directed by Wes Anderson and starring Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, Adrien Brody Willem Dafoe, Saoirse Ronan, Jeff Goldblum, Owen Wilson, Edward Norton, F. Murray Abraham, and Jude Law. Written by Wes Anderson, Stefan Zweig, and Hugo Guinness, edited by Barney Pilling, score composed by Alexandre Desplat and Simon Rhodes, and produced by Scott Rudin, Wes Anderson, Henning Molfenter, Charlie Woebcken, Jeremy Dawson, Steven M. Rales, Christoph Fisser, and Molly Cooper.

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