The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
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Viewer Rating
Rating: 8.5
Overview
This movie recounts the adventures of M. Gustave (Ralph Fiennes), a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa (Tony Revolori), the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. T...
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Rating categories
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Overview
This movie recounts the adventures of M. Gustave (Ralph Fiennes), a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa (Tony Revolori), the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. T...
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The film primarily functions as a melancholic elegy for a lost era of European civility and beauty, critiquing the universal destructiveness of war and authoritarianism without explicitly promoting a specific political ideology or offering a political solution.
The film incorporates visible diversity through a key character of non-European descent, whose immigrant background is central to the story. However, it does not feature explicit race or gender swaps of traditionally white roles, nor does its narrative explicitly critique traditional identities.
Secondary
The Grand Budapest Hotel does not contain any discernible LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative centers on the escapades of a hotel concierge and his lobby boy in a fictional European setting, without exploring queer identities or relationships.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The Grand Budapest Hotel is an original story with characters created specifically for the film. There are no pre-existing characters from source material, history, or prior installments whose gender could have been altered.
The Grand Budapest Hotel is an original film with no pre-existing source material or historical figures. All characters were created for this film, meaning there is no prior canonical or historical race to be altered.
Rating Breakdown
8.5
Overall Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
User Ratings
8.1
8.0
Critic Ratings
9.2
8.8
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