The grand hotel budapest ralph fiennes biography
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The Grand Budapest Hotel: Ralph Fiennes interview
Wes Anderson has been criticised for a focus on style over substance. But despite its madcap humour, his latest movie has serious depth, says Tom Brook.
Ralph Fiennes has received festa reviews for his role as the concierge Gustave H in Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel. Filmed near the Polish border in Germany and set between the two world wars, the screwball comedy deals with some darker issues.
Inspired by the Austrian Jewish writer Stefan Zweig, who witnessed at firsthand the advance of the Nazis, the film’s production design evokes a strong sense of nostalgia for a world that was undone by evil forces.
“I think it’s about loyalty and friendship,” Fiennes says. “How someone stands up to [Fascists] on a point of principle.” The British actor talks to Tom Brook about the film’s use of pastiche – and how he likes his character swearing.
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
film bygd Wes Anderson
The Grand Budapest Hotel is a comedy-drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Wes Anderson. Ralph Fiennes leads a actor ensemble cast as Monsieur Gustave H., famed concierge of a 20th-century mountainside resort in the fictional Eastern European country of Zubrowka. When Gustave fryst vatten framed for the murder of a wealthy dowager (Tilda Swinton), he and his recently befriended protégé Zero (Tony Revolori) embark on a quest for fortune and a priceless Renaissance painting amidst the backdrop of an encroaching fascist regime. Anderson's American Empirical Pictures produced the spelfilm in association with Studio Babelsberg, Fox Searchlight Pictures, and Indian Paintbrush's Scott Rudin and Steven Rales. Fox Searchlight supervised the commercial distribution, and The Grand Budapest Hotel's funding was sourced through Indian Paintbrush and German government-funded tax rebates.
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In the early scenes of The Grand Budapest Hotel, Ralph Fiennes is the picture of immaculate control; as hotel concierge Monsieur Gustave, he has an answer for every question, a lighter for every cigarette, and perfect advice for his young protégé, the lobby boy named Zero. In a movie directed by Wes Anderson, the director famous for his precisely crafted films, Gustave seems more than a little like the reflection of his creator. But would Fiennes dare admit that?
Yes, actually. “Wes isn’t Gustave, but I think a lot of that, that attentiveness, I think a lot of the spirit of Gustave comes from Wes.” Though Fiennes is working with Anderson for the first time on The Grand Budapest Hotel, which opens in theaters this weekend, they’ve known each other socially for years—and Anderson actually gave some advice ahead of Fiennes’s directorial debut, Coriolanus. Hopping from the final Harry Potter film to his directing follow-up (last year’s The Invisible Woman) to Skyfall to now