Most importantly, forget the raucous laughter.

There are murders, illicit affairs, suicides and devilish psychological manipulation, but - unlike in The Grand Budapest Hotel - no madcap chases from evil henchmen. Inspired by the works of writer Stefan Zweig, it’s a darkly humourous and spectacularly filmed look at 1930s Europe, oppressive governments, greed, love, friendship, and magnanimous behaviour – it’s all thanks to the efforts of Wes Anderson. On the one hand it’s intriguing to watch a movie with the people who shape the initial cultural perception of a film. À l’époque de sa splendeur, l’établissement est un palace sur lequel règne le distingué concierge M. Gustave. Wes Anderson a fait appel au directeur de la photographie Tristan Oliver et à l'animateur Andy Biddle, qui avaient travaillé sur Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)[8]. The Grand Budapest Hotel: Stefan Zweig Inspired Movie Excellence.

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Alongside The Luzhin Defense by Vladimir Nabokov, Zweig's final work, The Royal Game (or A Chess Story), remains one of the finest fictions about the game. L'équipe du film y a d'ailleurs installé ses bureaux et ses ateliers[8]. But despite its frothy tone and galloping pace, The Grand Budapest Hotel is a kind of monument – it begins, after all, in mock-sombre fashion with a teenage fan’s pilgrimage to the statue of a great author.

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Zweig's writing is more subtle, but at the same time overflows with over-the-top, emotionally draining yet exhilarating melodrama. Zweig, who committed suicide with his second wife in Petropolis, Brazil, wrote novels which were unconcerned with the degradation of societal values. The highly talented Irish actress Saoirse Ronan (only 19 at the time!) Stefan Zweig: Grand Budapest Hotel’s inspiration, the film’s premiere at the Berlin Film Festival. “I think I read the first page in the store and thought, ‘OK, this is a new favourite writer of mine,’” Anderson told Variety. L'équipe a utilisé le Görlitzer Warenhaus, ancien grand magasin historique d'un centre commercial construit en 1912 à Görlitz. The Grand Budapest Hotel has moments of slapstick, silliness, and black humour. Nouveau flash-back, 1968. Il est le seul à s'intéresser à Madame D., ses héritiers préférant l'imaginer morte. With his life's glittering distractions, his precisely groomed moustache, fussy manners and naive pacifism, it is tempting to settle on the figure of a man who appeared to have everything even as the world self-destructed - and who is now resigned to history as the driving-force behind the double-suicide that cut short his life and that of his 33-year-old wife. Zweig and his work are comfortable on film. Ce qui arrive un jour, mais le testament ne donne pas tout aux héritiers : la vieille dame a légué à Gustave H. un tableau de la Renaissance (« Le garçon à la pomme ») d'une inestimable valeur, qui disparaît aussitôt. Murray Abraham, Pour plus de détails, voir Fiche technique et Distribution. While Zweig peaked during the glitzy but uncertain era that embraced Hemingway and Fitzgerald, his characters don't muster the manic levity of flapper girls or the bravado of post-war wanderers. Ce dernier constate la curiosité de l’auteur et l’invite à dîner pour lui conter son histoire. There’s a lot to take in – it’s a visual treat, fans of excellent narratives and dialogue will be left delighted, and the performances are universally terrific. Sur le site Rotten Tomatoes, le film a obtenu 92 % d'opinions favorables pour une moyenne de 8,5/10[15].

“They probably didn't resonate very much in the 1940s to the ‘60s.” Another reason for his recent obscurity is the reluctance of readers in the US and UK to read literature in translation. Thomas Mann and Robert Musil disregarded him as a populiser for the masses, and his work helped overthrow the belief that German-language writers must be difficult. The whimsical film's plot details the adventures of Gustave H, the concierge at a hotel in the fictional Republic of Zubrowka between World Wars I and II, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his trusted friend. “It does seem to be the case that languages – at least English – change enough that older translations can sometimes, perhaps often, feel stale.”. Anderson has claimed coming across Zweig’s books in Paris and that his inspiration for characters and story stem centrally from Zweig’s work. We’re making the claim it’s a modern classic. Zweig introduced Dali to Freud and served in the War Archive with Rilke before working with Joyce to translate A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man into Italian. But Anderson’s most dense piece of film is one that takes a fair amount of influence from one of its largest inspirational debts: Stefan Zweig. The film is open to the broadest style of comedy that Anderson has wielded yet and The Grand Budapest Hotel offers a delectable treat which matches the kind of scrumptious looking pastries from Mendl’s (a pastry shop where Zero meets his love interest played by Saoirse Ronan). Just a week after the fall of Singapore, at the height of World War II, newspapers across the world cleared room to report the news of his death. This marriage might seem more fitting when viewing Anderson's film as a pleasure for those seeking reprieve into an imaginary place where the surroundings are more beautiful and the worst scenarios (dismemberment, incarceration) become the stuff of hilarity. Stefan Zweig is not a household name, but not an obscure one either, though until the Zweig-inspired Wes Anderson film, The Grand Budapest Hotel, his was a seldom remarked and sparsely praised literary-historical presence. De tous côtés, The Grand Budapest Hotel a été encensé par les critiques et présenté comme l'un des meilleurs films de ces dernières années. Settling on gathering enjoyment from his films can come after much deliberation as to whether he’s serious about the utterly finicky nature he employs in his chosen colour palettes, set construction, camera movements and scrupulous plot details. Tous droits réservés.

Thusly, we’ve revisited our old post, given it a lovely new sheen of life, and here it is for you to stare at again! Fiennes dominates the film as the charming Gustave H. who is, at once, personable and welcoming but also utterly enigmatic. David Kahen-Kashi is a writer living in Washington, D.C. and…. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Thusly, we’ve revisited our old post, given it a lovely new sheen of life, and here it is for you to stare at again! Those who become acquainted with Zweig through the coda that ends The Grand Budapest Hotel, ''Inspired by the writings of Stefan Zweig'', may find themselves perplexed when they crack open the author's greatest fiction. Sociétés de production : American Empirical Pictures, Meilleur scénario original pour Wes Anderson, Meilleur acteur dans une comédie pour Ralph Fiennes. Anderson’s personal style of comedy and film making is strongly suited to depicting tension between unconventional groups of beings, personal loss and upper class values. His last years were lived in exile in Britain, the US and finally Brazil. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out /  Until Pushkin Press and the New York Review of Books began to re-issue new editions in recent years, Zweig was known outside continental Europe by just a small group of literary aficionados and students in university German departments. When the credits roll at the end of Anderson’s latest film, The Grand Budapest Hotel, the first one goes to Stefan Zweig, whose writings inspired it. Elle est munie d’un de ses livres : The Grand Budapest Hotel. However, much of Zweig’s oeuvre often details the crass takeover of the Nazi regime during the 1940’s as well as a time before, when such grim concerns were just over the political horizon. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Stefan Zweig: 'a connoisseur of coursing blood and throbbing temple'.