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64th Berlin Film Festival opens with Wes Anderson's eccentric tragicomedy Grand Budapest Hotel

Imagine an old-fashioned sophisticated comedy, but filmed with modern speed, in the colourful and baroque style of a richly detailed comic strip full of plots and escapes, rounded off with a perfume of melancholy. That's when you come close to The Grand Budapest Hotel, the new film by Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums, Fantastic Mr Fox, Moonrise Kingdom) The Berlin Film Festival (6 - 16 February) thus secured an opening with a festive yet unconventi...

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Leo Bankersen

Leo Bankersen has been writing about film since Chinatown and Night of the Living Dead. Reviewed as a freelance film journalist for the GPD for a long time. Is now, among other things, one of the regular contributors to De Filmkrant. Likes to break a lance for children's films, documentaries and films from non-Western countries. Other specialities: digital issues and film education.View Author posts

Imagine an old-fashioned sophisticated comedy, but filmed with modern speed, in the colourful and baroque style of a richly detailed comic strip full of plots and escapes, rounded off with a perfume of melancholy. That's when you come close to The Grand Budapest Hotel, the new film by Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums, Fantastic Mr Fox, Moonrise Kingdom) The Berlin Film Festival (6 - 16 February) thus secured an opening with a festive yet unconventi...

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