It wasn’t until I visited the Foundation Prada in Milan that I truly understood Wes Anderson’s commitment to the modern artists who tried to reconcile the 20th century with the beauty and charm and romance of the 19th.
The Grand Budapest Hotel is his strongest statement on and most explicit commitment to that sensibility. But the Fantastic Mr. Fox might be one his works that lives it most successfully.
I hope he makes these layered, inte films forever.