{"id":1726,"date":"2014-03-24T07:23:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T11:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=1726"},"modified":"2014-04-02T07:31:06","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T11:31:06","slug":"the-grand-budapest-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=1726","title":{"rendered":"The Grand Budapest Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, The Grand Budapest Hotel\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.x-tremeradio.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/grand-budapest.jpg?w=400\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><i>The Grand Budapest Hotel <\/i>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandbudapesthotel.com\/\">trailer and other stuff here<\/a>)\u2014sold out in the local movie house playing it on two screeens\u2014is an enjoyable romp through the Central European country of Zubrowka, obscure even by fictional standards in the early 1930\u2019s, as an unnamed brutal regime is taking increasing power. It\u2019s best not to fixate on Wes Anderson\u2019s tissue-paper plot and instead enjoy the numerous cameo roles. I have to believe that working on Anderson\u2019s movies is fun; otherwise so many notable actors wouldn\u2019t agree to do it!<\/p>\n<p>Anderson didn\u2019t break the budget on a lot of CGI to achieve verisimilitude\u2014the imaginary vistas fit right into this fable about a generous spirit with impeccable standards. It\u2019s great to see Ralph Fiennes, one of my faves, in an upbeat role for a change as the hotel\u2019s concierge, Gustave H.\u00a0 The fascist peril is real, nonetheless, and marks the certain end of the world the concierge is trying to desperately to protect.<\/p>\n<p>If you need a break from late winter\u2019s interminable gloom, this movie is a lively breath of spring. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/the_grand_budapest_hotel\/\">Rotten Tomatoes rating<\/a>: critics and audiences agree (for once): 91%. Says critic Rene Rodriguez, \u201cthe pleasure curls your toes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The movie is based on the several writings by Austrian novelist, biographer, and playwright Stefan Zweig, a Jew who in real life fled his country upon the rise of Hitler\u2014first to London, then New York, and Brazil.<a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_h.png?w=584\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grand Budapest Hotel (trailer and other stuff here)\u2014sold out in the local movie house playing it on two screeens\u2014is an enjoyable romp through the Central European country of Zubrowka, obscure even by fictional standards in the early 1930\u2019s, as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=1726\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The Grand Budapest Hotel","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,57,104],"tags":[417,162],"class_list":["post-1726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-movies","category-the-morgue","tag-film","tag-movie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NkiT-rQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1727,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions\/1727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}