The Grand Budapest Hotel
In tribute to the writer Stefan Zweig, here's a cycle of films presented in collaboration with the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies (CCGES) at the Université de Montréal and the Austrian Cultural Forum in Ottawa.
Zero Mustafa, a young political refugee, manages to get hired as a lobby boy at the Grand Budapest Hotel and is looked after by M. Gustave, the hotel concierge. Gustave inherits a valuable painting, which gets him into trouble, but he can count on Zero's help. Inspired by the writings of Stefan Sweig, without being an adaptation of one of his works, The Grand Budapest Hotelremains a fully Wes-andersonian film in its style.
Wes Anderson
Wes Anderson is an American filmmaker. His films are known for their eccentricity, unique visual and narrative styles. Anderson is cited by some critics as a modern-day example of an auteur. He gained acclaim for his early work Bottle Rocket (1996), and Rushmore (1998). He then received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Royal Tenenbaums (2001). His next films included The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), The Darjeeling Limited (2007), and his first stop-motion film Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) for which he received an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature nomination, and then Moonrise Kingdom (2012), earning his second Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay nomination. For his film The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), he received his first Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Picture, and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay. Later works include his second stop-motion film Isle of Dogs (2018), earning him the Silver Bear for Best Director, followed by The French Dispatch (2021) and Asteroid City (2023).
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