The Grand Budapest Hotel

You know what to expect from a Wes Anderson Film, and this is one of his best. The Grand Budapest hotel tells the story of concierge Gustave H played by Ralph Fiennes, and his lobby boy Zero. It is a wonderful performance from Fienne, M. Gustave does everything at 100mph and his body language and tone are superb. The story is very funny in places, especially the jailbreak sequence is hilarious, with some great one liners from Fiennes. The film is set in 3 different time periods, with the author of a book, telling the story of how he met the owner of the Grand Budpapest Hotel, who in turn tells the story of how he came to aquire it. The problem is that with each change of time period Anderson decided to change the screen ratio to that used in the period concerned. The 1930's story is told in a narrow square screen, whereas the narration from the 1980's is shown in widescreen, this means that the film never fully fills the cinema screen, and the constant change of ratio gets extremely annoying after a while. This is perhaps Anderson at his best, very funny and sharp, well directed, thou i'm not sure how it will play on tv given the constant change of ratio 7/10