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Critics who waxed lyrical about 2012’s Moonrise Kingdom have left themselves precious few superlatives for Wes Anderson’s arguably even better follow-up. His best since The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)? Maybe. It’s certainly his most adventurous.
Three narrators tell of the eponymous establishment: Tom Wilkinson’s acclaimed, unnamed, now-dead author, speaking in 1985, recalls a stay in 1968 when (now played by Jude Law) he met and dined with owner Mr Moustafa (F. Murray Abraham), who shared his memories of the hotel’s heyday, circa 1932. The recollections tally, summoning up a baroque pink palace, perched precariously above the fictional European country of Zubrowka.
As a new lobby boy, Moustafa – then known as Zero (newcomer Tony Revolori) – is taken under the wing of the effete yet efficient M. Gustave (Ralph Fiennes), whose adoration of elderly guest Madame D. (Tilda Swinton), sets in motion a Hitchcockian concoction of heists, screwball and literal cliffhangers.
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