The Grand Budapest Hotel (dir. Wes Anderson)
Eh... Didn't really get on with the fussy artificial aesthetic. Everything is designed like a patisserie shop window. The story is also breezily inconsequential. The performances are where the film shines. Ralph Fiennes is excellent, and appearances from F. Murray Abraham, Jeff Goldblum, Adrien Brody, and many others (most of them regular/semi-regular Anderson players) add richer colours to an otherwise aggressively superficial albeit expertly put-together production. I have enjoyed films by Anderson, such as The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, in the past. That film was also deliberately and fussily artificial in aesthetic, and it makes me wonder if my tastes/patiences have changed since then. Overall it's not bad, and certainly while it is on screen it is a pleasure to watch, but it becomes less appealing to me the more I think about it after the fact.