Grand Budapest Hotel's Story of Worker Solidarity
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Wes
Anderson’s new film “The Grand Budapest
Hotel” is a lovely paean to a lost era “but
it’s also a subtle story of workers and
worker solidarity,” writes DC Labor FilmFest
Director Chris Garlock in a recent post
on Working
America’s Main Street blog. “Set mostly in
the 1930′s in the fictional central European
nation of Zubrowka, the film’s heroes are the
concierge and lobby-boy at the Grand Budapest,
a luxurious hotel where bejewelled and
top-hatted Old European nobles — the 1% of
the day — enjoy the finer things in life,”
says Garlock. “As usual in Anderson’s
films, the story, as convoluted and
entertaining as it is, is less important than
the quirky characters and intricately detailed
sets on which the film plays out. After all the
rushing
about, what stands out this time is the
sympathetic portrayal of the nobility of the
work done by what today are simply called
service workers.” Click here
for the complete
post.
photo: Ralph Fiennes (right) as M.
Gustav the concierge and Tony Revolori as Zero
the Lobby Boy.