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Review: 'The Grand Budapest Hotel'

Bob Mondello looks at Wes Anderson's latest cinematic curiosity, The Grand Budapest Hotel. Copyright 2014 NPR. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Filmmaker Wes Anderson makes movies that are eccentric, pointedly artificial and, to his fans, very funny. From his early comedies "Rushmore" and "The Royal Tannenbaums," to last year's Oscar-nominated "Moonrise Kingdom," Anderson's movies have looked and sounded different from everyone else's in Hollywood. And critic Bob Mondello says that streak continues with his spoof of extravagant 1930s melodramas. It's called "The Grand Budapest Hotel." BOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: The hotel looks a bit like a pink wedding cake perched atop a Swiss Alp. Ralph Fiennes is its concierge, Mr. Guztav H., who wears a purple tux, reeks of cologne, and likes his dowagers rich, old, insecure, vain, superficial, and...