So,
I was dying to see Grand Budapest Hotel.
Eddie and I went this week-end.
.
Eh… Eddie really liked it, but I wanted more, I
don’t know, more something. I find Wes
Anderson movies great, as a rule. I love
the craziness of it all. I thought Grand
Budapest wasn’t quite crazy enough. Or
was too attentive to its own quirkiness.
That seems odd, but Moonrise Kingdom was artificial but pretended it
wasn’t – likewise most of his films.
Grand Budapest seemed to relish its artificiality too much. It wasn’t the sets or anything – maybe the
aspect bugged me. He shot in 3 aspects
for 3 story timelines – which seems a little too hand-holdy.
.
But
almost everyone was great. Nice to see
Ralph Fiennes doing something good again.
And Tilda Swindon is amazing as always.
And I like hating Adrian Brody – there is something despicable about him
that makes me want to root against him. (I felt sorry for King Kong in the end
– sorry he lost the girl to Adrian and sorry I had to sit through it).
.
And
I did love the models and miniatures. I
thought they were good fun. It’s not
that I didn’t like the movie. I liked it
fine. But I wanted to love it. Perhaps I was done in by early (too) positive
reviews. My expectations were too high.
.
Funny
story though. The first credit says it
was based (loosely) on the writings of Stefan Zweig. When we went to Rio for Christmas, I actually
took the memoir of
