The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson's latest film, might be perfect, according to critics. Brightly colored, characters fitted with a lover's agenda, Tilda Swinton aged forty years with makeup, and an all-star cast that draws together "every actor you've ever liked," has commentators praising the film simply from its two minute and twenty-six second trailer.

Ralph Fiennes stars as Gustave H, a hotel concierge at the glamorous and legendary Budapest Hotel. There, he befriends a young lobby boy Zero Moustafa (Tony Revolori), and the boy becomes his protégé. Then, the concierge is accused of murder. Suspected of slaying an elderly guest (Tilda Swinton) who he was sexually acquainted with, he soon wins the possession of a very expensive painting that was assigned to him in her will -- which rouses more trouble.

The brief trailer doesn't make a point of explicitly providing a detailed description of every one of its all-star cast members' roles, but the roster of celebrities to be featured include: Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Jude Law, Harvey Keitel, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Saoirse Ronan, Léa Seydoux, Jason Schwartzman, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson, and Owen Wilson.

Some character's roles are identified. "Yes, that's Tilda Swinton underneath all that old age makeup. Yes, that's Adrien Brody landing punches at the reading of the will. That's Saoirse Ronan with an apparent face tattoo, slipping seamlessly into the kind of romantic close-up Wes Anderson gives all his heroines," Katey Rich of Cinema Blend said.

"And most of all that's Ralph Fiennes, going all posh and daffy as an Andersonian hero-- he's basically The Fantastic Mr. Fox in human form-- but keeping that slippery European-ness about him as well. This will be Anderson's first film set in Europe (unless you count The Fantastic Mr. Fox's vaguely English setting), and Fiennes seems to make a perfect transitionary hero-- the bluster of Royal Tennenbaum, the romanticism of Max Fischer, the spirit of adventure of Moonrise Kingdom's Sam, all with a perfectly continental mustache to back it up,"

Wes Anderson’s other films, in which he wrote, produced and/or directed are Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Squid and the Whale, The Darjeeing Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox and Moonrise Kingdom.

The comedy-drama began filming in Berlin in January of this year, and finished in Germany during March. After Fox Searchlights Pictures acquired the movie, the release date bounced back and forth between October of this year (to create awards buzz) and March of next year. It was settled that the film would be released on March 7, 2014, after the film's first poster was only released in October.