The Grand Budapest Hotel - Directed by Wes Anderson - 2014 - Starring Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolari, and Saorise Ronan

 The Grand Budapest Hotel - Directed by Wes Anderson - 2014 - Starring Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolari, and Saorise Ronan

Available on Amazon Prime 

Academy Awards for Best Original Score, Best Makeup and Hair Design, and Best Costume Design

"Young Writer - is it simply your last connection to that banished world - his world, if you will?

Mr. Moustafa: His world? No, I don't think so. You see, we shared a vocation, it wouldn't have been necessary. No, the hotel I keep for Agatha. We were happy here, for a little while.

Mr. Moustafa: To be frank, I think his world had vanished long before he ever entered it. But I will say, he certainly sustained the illusion with a marvelous grace."

"M, Gustave: You see, there are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. Indeed, that’s what we provide in our own modest, humble, insignificant … Oh, f*ck it."

I first saw The Grand Budapest Hotel on television in 2014.  It was shown several times and I totally loved the movie. I was very happy to find it available via Amazon Prime Video. 

Wikipedia has a very comprehensive article on the movie so I will just briefly talk about what The Grand Budapest Hotel means to me now ten years on.

Now I see the movie as an exploration of profound loneliness and grieve.  Like the aged Mr. Moustafa staying in the way past it's glory days Grand Budapest Hotel I have suffered a terrible loss of a beloved wife, gone way before her time.  I have a  very supportive family but I never expected to face old age  I am 78, without her.  The movie also is an exposure of Fascism and anti-immigrant attitudes, both very strong in America and else where now.  I liked the depiction of the relationship of Agatha and Zero so much.