July 03, 2014

Zero Moustafa-Not Quite

A Fictional Fantasy Between the Wars
The Grand Budapest Hotel is superb story-telling.

The way the story is unraveled is artistically done  so that the audience can savour every bit of its incandescent story-line.

It is intrinsically a story of of two lobby boys who became concierges and then owners of the same hotel in two different periods and their experiential adventures. While Gustav H, the senior lobby boy has superb hospitality skills and provided specialised services for  aged wealthy women thus earning their continuing patronage to the hotel, Zero Moustafa was the simpleton refugee that finally inherited the Grand Budapest Hotel. His life, however, lacks the splendour of Gustav H and was a long unending life of tragedy.

The thrills and spills are all here in this comedic thriller. Do see it.

Lending credence to this US-German effort are Ralph Fiennes as Gustav H, F. Murray Abraham as Zero, Adrien Brody as Dmitri,Jeff Goblum as Kovac, Bill Murray, Saoirse Ronan  as Agatha and Tilda Swinton as Madame D.