The Art Direction of The Grand Budapest Hotel

If there's one director working today who completely understands the importance of visuals as an aspect of cinema it's indie extraordinaire, Wes Anderson. Although it pains me to type, Anderson's visual style is best described as "quirky", with comments on his aesthetic signature usually laced with grand hyperbole and excessive superlatives - but all for good reason. Anderson's current film, The Grand Budapest Hotel , seems to be the movie that just refuses to leave the cinema. Approaching just ...