Sentences with phrase «as lobby boy»

The aging Zero recounts to the author (Jude Law) his days working as a lobby boy in the hotel in the 1930s; back when the Grand Budapest was a lavish and opulent palace, full of decadent ornamentations and rich, vibrant decors, and back when it attracted only the most esteemed and refined individuals.

As they sit in its cavernous dining room, the owner tells a long story about his youth as a lobby boy in the 1930s, training under the fastidious eye of concierge Gustave (Ralph Fiennes).

The first clip from the film has arrived and it finds both Ralph Fiennes, and us, meeting Zero played by Revolori (and F. Murray Abraham as the older version), who is hired as a lobby boy at the titular hotel and gets thrown into the wild orbit of M. Gustave.

It involves a teenaged Zero (Tony Revolori) joining the hotel as lobby boy and being instructed by the erudite head concierge, M. Gustave (Ralph Fiennes).

Taking place over four time periods (each with a corresponding aspect ratio that shrinks as the narrative burrows further into the past, as if the mental recollection itself is deteriorating), Anderson's eighth film follows the life of Zero Moustafa (portrayed by F. Murray Abraham in flashback and Tony Revolori in further flashback) as he joins the ranks of the opulent eponymous hotel as lobby boy under the tutelage of Gustave H. (Ralph Fiennes), the popular and outgoing concierge.

And this is where the story truly begins, as Moustafa then recounts his early days working as a lobby boy (played by Tony Revolori) at the hotel under the guidance of charismatic concierge Gustave H. (Ralph Fiennes), a man whose expert hospitality extends to sexual favors for the old and wealthy female clientele.

WHAT: The enigmatic owner of the once - majestic Grand Budapest Hotel recounts how it came into his possession, dating back to his days as a lobby boy under the guidance of charismatic concierge Gustave H. (Ralph Fiennes), who's framed for the murder of a wealthy female patron when she leaves him a priceless painting in exchange for years of companionship.

From there, F. Murray Abraham's Zero narrates his story of working as a lobby boy with then hotel concierge M. Gustave H. (played by Ralph Fiennes).

Not exact matches

The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson's follow - up to Moonrise Kingdom, stars Ralph Fiennes as M. Gustave, a concierge at the titular hotel, and newcomer Tony Revolori as Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend.

Yet Gustave's characterisation as a self - absorbed womaniser and his friendship with a lobby boy named Zero (Tony Revolori) leaves little doubt about how he will develop as a person throughout the narrative.

Tony Revolori as Zero the lobby boy (watch out for him in the future).

It also includes some hilarious reoccurring jokes as the story eventually reveals how Phil the lobby boy (Crispin Glover), loses his arm.

We begin with a more or less contemporary author (Tom Wilkinson), looking back on his visit to the G.B.H., then flash back some decades to the «60s, where that writer as a younger man (Jude Law) talks to the hotel's owner (F. Murray Abraham), who in turns tells a story from 1932, involving the legendary concierge Monsieur Gustave (Ralph Fiennes) and his sidekick «lobby boy» Zero (Tony Revolori).

Synopsis: Set during the 1930s, we join new lobby boy Zero Moustafa (Tony Revolori) as he joins The Grand Budapest Hotel.

The elevator in The Grand Budapest Hotel also works as place to explain various plot points as M. Gustave brings Zero into the fold as a proper lobby boy.

A whimsical concoction as pretty as a wedding cake, a multi-tiered tale, within a tale, within a tale, the GRAND and very PINK Hotel Budapest is presided over by one Gustave H., (Ralph Fiennes), the hotel's ultra-refined concierge, and involves a wide - eyed lobby boy named «Zero,» Tilda Swinton as a wealthy octogenarian who's «dynamite in the sack,» a family squabble over inheritance, a priceless and definitely kitschy piece of Renaissance art, a greedy evil son (Adrien Brody), a knucklebound henchman with a frightening underbite (Willem Dafoe), a lanky lawyer (Jeff Goldblum) and his soon to be airborn Persian cat, monks on skis, cliff - hanging climaxes, and plotting pastry chefs!

This 1930s segment is where we are introduced to the film's real hero, M.Gustav (Ralph Fiennes), as he romances rich old ladies, mentors young refugee lobby boy Zero (Tony Revolori) and runs the Grand Budapest to a rigidly perfectionist, and already outdated, code of discretion and honor.