written and directed by: Wes Anderson
starring: Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, Saoirse Ronan
seen: 10th May, 2014, additional comment: 6th May, 2018
I went to see the film with a boulder-sized migraine and it still managed to make me laugh out loud like crazy. I guess the less real the "Wes-world" is, the more amused/engaged am I. Maybe it's true that the idea seems to get a bit lost under the surface, but when I see other directors no more being capable to even do form/style properly in their new films (my recent disappointments include Jarmusch - Only Lovers Left Alive, McQueen - Twelve Years a Slave, Burton - just about anything he does these days, Jackson - the dreaded second trilogy) I am very glad that I can say that at least Anderson still knows his stuff.
2018: And thinking back I now one hundred percent don't think that the idea gets smothered by the surface. There's nothing wrong with different types of stories being told. (And I have to make an honorable mention of Saoirse Ronan, who I subconsciously hated ever since The Atonement, courtesy of the character she portrayed there. Well, thanks to the part she plays here my hatred is gone an I am free to notice in different films as well that she is in fact quite an interesting actress.)
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