Inside The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Work of Director Wes Anderson

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Skippy Massey
Humboldt Sentinel

Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel abounds with some madcap energy, high whimsy, and more than its share of dark comedy.

It was well-received at the box office, garnering nine Academy Award nominations.  But Roger Ebert.com film critic Matt Zoller Seitz also detected a deep sadness in the film which he explores in his new video, seen above.

The Wes Anderson Collection, is an intricate inside look not just at the story itself, but the dark influences and somber themes running throughout the film—and in Anderson’s career.

Seitz notes how art and artifice, and mendacity and duplicity, both play an important part in preserving legacies and destinies– allowing the historical characters some measure of control in an otherwise turbulent and chaotic world happening around them.  

It’s an intriguing, well-made, and novel assessment that shines a new and different light on Anderson’s latest work– and what is arguably his greatest film.