NEW MOVIES
Film
Facts
In an interview,
Saoirse Ronan
admitted that
making the
hotel’s signature
confection, the
Courtisane au
Chocolat, wasn’t
easy. “Forget the
action scenes in
Hanna (2011),” she
said, “these little
pastries were the
hardest thing I’ve
had to do in a
movie.”
The Grand Budapest Hotel
COMEDY | Starring: Owen Wilson, Jude
Law, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes
Director: Wes Anderson Rating: M
The adventures of Gustave H (Fiennes), a
legendary concierge at a famous European
hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa,
the lobby boy who becomes his most
trusted friend. The story involves the theft
and recovery of a priceless Renaissance
painting and the battle for an enormous
family fortune – all against the back-drop
of a suddenly and dramatically changing
Continent.
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Tilda Swinton
spent hours in the
makeup chair to
play 84-year-old
dowager Madame
D. “We’re not usually
working with a vast,
Bruckheimer-type
budget on my films,
so often we’re trying
a work-around,”
said Wes Anderson.
“But for the old-age
makeup I just said,
‘Let’s get the most
expensive people
we can.’”
The symbol worn
by Edward Norton’s
character Henckels
and his army is the
head of Mr Fox from
The Fantastic Mr.
Fox (2009), also
directed by Wes
Anderson.
The name of the
fictional Republic
of Zubrowka comes
from the Polish
vodka Zubrowkavodka seasoned
with Bison grass.
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