The Grand Budapest Hotel
Movie, 2014, The 2010s, Set in Zubrowka
The Grand Budapest Hotel is #8 of 13 in release order and #8 of 13 in chronological order in the Wes Anderson.
The story
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.
The Grand Budapest Hotel recap
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) follows a fastidious concierge and his young lobby boy after he is framed for the murder of a rich old guest. In the 1930s in the fictional Zubrowka, Monsieur Gustave H. (Ralph Fiennes) runs a mountain resort and romances its elderly clients, including Madame D. (Tilda Swinton). When she dies and leaves him the painting Boy with Apple, her son Dmitri (Adrien Brody) has him arrested. Gustave escapes prison with tools smuggled in pastries baked by Agatha (Saoirse Ronan), girlfriend of his protégé Zero Moustafa (Tony Revolori). With help from a secret society of concierges, they chase the truth while Dmitri's hitman Jopling (Willem Dafoe) kills witnesses. The tale is nested inside a writer's 1968 conversation with the older Zero (F. Murray Abraham). Wes Anderson directs from a story he developed with Hugo Guinness. This eighth feature follows Moonrise Kingdom.
The Grand Budapest Hotel ending explained
The Grand Budapest Hotel ends with Gustave cleared and rich, and then killed. A second will turns up behind the painting naming Gustave as heir, proving Dmitri arranged his mother's murder. Zero becomes concierge and marries Agatha. On a train, soldiers stop Zero, Gustave defends him, and they shoot Gustave. The older Zero explains that Agatha and their son later died of Prussian grippe, and that he keeps the decaying hotel in her memory. Anderson credits the writings of Stefan Zweig as inspiration.
Post-credits scenes
No. The Grand Budapest Hotel has no post-credits scene, though a small animated dancer appears during the credits.
Where to watch The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Grand Budapest Hotel isn't on a US streaming service right now. You can rent or buy it on Amazon, Apple TV, and Google Play.
Ratings
IMDb 8.1/10, Rotten Tomatoes 92%
Where it fits
- Release order: after Moonrise Kingdom, before Isle of Dogs.
- Chronological order: after Moonrise Kingdom, before Isle of Dogs.
Cast
- Ralph Fiennes as M. Gustave
- F. Murray Abraham as Mr. Moustafa
- Tony Revolori as Zero
- Adrien Brody as Dmitri
- Willem Dafoe as Jopling
- Mathieu Amalric as Serge X.
- Jeff Goldblum as Deputy Kovacs
- Harvey Keitel as Ludwig
- Jude Law as Young Author
- Bill Murray as M. Ivan
- Edward Norton as Henckels
- Saoirse Ronan as Agatha
Directed by Wes Anderson.