The Grand Budapest Hotel is not so much a visual movie as a furnished movie. And what's it furnished with? Neologisms made up of Mitteleuropaische sounding words (a joke that begins to pale), bloody noses, pastry from a place called Mendl's, a supposed masterpiece called "Boy with Apple" that is replaced by a Schiele look-alike of a woman fingering her female lover and lots of antiques. The switching of the Schiele for the "Boy with Apple" is one of the most significant devices of the movie sinc...
The Grand Budapest Hotel is not so much a visual movie as a furnished movie. And what's it furnished with? Neologisms made up of Mitteleuropaische sounding words (a joke that begins to pale), bloody noses, pastry from a place called Mendl's, a supposed masterpiece called "Boy with Apple" that is replaced by a Schiele look-alike of a woman fingering her female lover and lots of antiques. The switching of the Schiele for the "Boy with Apple" is one of the most significant devices of the movie sinc...
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