The Grand Budapest Hotel star Ralph Fiennes talks being in the Wes Anderson Club — foxnews.com

Ralph Fiennes plays concierge Monsieur Gustave in Wes Anderson's new film “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” and says its a character unlike any he’s done before. FOX411 talked to Fiennes about being part of Anderson's go-to players (if there’s a secret handshake), and grand hotel stays of his own. FOX411: How do you describe "The Grand Budapest Hotel"? Ralph Fiennes: I think people have come to identify Wes' films with a certain kind of low-key, bittersweet comedy allied to a given visual style, a quite self-conscious visual style in the framing of shots and the movement of the camera is very precise. What it's not is hand-held, jittery, high-speed cutting. I think it's quite pictorially considered, but with a sort of eye to visual humor. So you have a sense of visual humor and a kind of understated delivery of performance which is a sort of odd blend. He doesn't want, I mean this is a generalization, but I feel that Wes is into very simple performances, and he believes if the script is right and the relationships between two people, then this odd simplicity has its own kind of allure.

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