II. Budapest Classic Film Marathon: The Grand Budapest Hotel

Director: Wes Anderson

Cinematographer: Robert D. Yeoman 
Music: Alexandre Desplat

Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Tilda Swinton, Jude Law 

Despite the title, this is a confidently and unquestionably American film about the irretrievable and sadly long-lost beauties of the ‘good old days’: mildly nostalgic, a touch melancholic. Just as in virtually all Wes Anderson works, here too it is about a hero seeking his father (who has lost his real father) who grows into a man in the course of the search for his father. The none-too-complicated plot itself, which concerns the concierge and a bellhop getting tangled up in the theft of a work of art, references genres popular decades earlier, although as we are accustomed to with films by this director, the storyline is not the point, rather the images: virtually every setting, nearly every single frame – for the most part structured on symmetry, coolly refined and worked out to the smallest detail – could be sold as a postcard.

Ticket information

Ticket price: 1000 HUF
Tickets are available at the Cassa of the Urania National Film Theatre (open every day 10:30-21:00, Credit Cards are accepted) and in the Ticket Sale System of Interticket (available in English too).