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Today's movie was a cartoon version of the middle European intrigue genre replete with spies and double dealing.

Wes Anderson's

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

An unqualified delight. Stars, story, intrigue.

It is what is known as an anthology script, that is with the hotel as a device many different stories and characters can be explored.

Sometimes this format yields a trite mashup but not this film. Originality creeps under bedroom doors, across the front desk, in the pants of some of the spy types who inhabit the place and even in the costumes.

I liked it a lot and will see it again some day. That makes it a 5 out of Netflix5.

Labels: films