The Grand Budapest Hotel is a comedy-drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Wes Anderson. Ralph Fiennes leads a actor ensemble cast as Monsieur Gustave H. Fox Searchlight supervised the commercial distribution, and The Grand Budapest Hotel ' s funding was sourced through Indian Paintbrush and German government-funded tax rebates.
Anderson and longtime collaborator Hugo Guinness conceived The Grand Budapest Hotel as a fragmented tale following a character inspired by a common friend. They initially struggled in brainstorming, but the experience touring Europe and researching the literature of Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig shaped their vision for the film.
The Grand Budapest Hotel draws visually from Europe-set mid-century Hollywood films and the United States Library of Congress 's photochrom print collection of alpine resorts.
Filming took place in eastern Germany from January to March French composer Alexandre Desplat composed the symphonic, Russian folk -inspired score, which expanded on his early work with Anderson.
The film explores themes of fascism, nostalgia, friendship, and loyalty, and further studies analyze the function of color as an important storytelling device. The French theatrical release on February 26 preceded the film's global rollout, followed by releases in Germany, North America, and the United Kingdom on March 6โ7. The Grand Budapest Hotel is now considered as Anderson's magnum opus and has been assessed as one of the greatest films of the 21st century, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] with particular praise for its craftsmanship and acting as well as occasional criticism centered on the film's approach to subject matter, fragmented storytelling, and characterization.
