According to Indiewire, The Grand Budapest Hotel is the best film of the year so far, and Wes Anderson is so saudade.
With 122 critics voting in Indiewire’s second annual mid-year poll of the Criticwire Network, Wes Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel” checked in with a strong showing in first place… “Budapest” appeared on nearly 60% of the total ballots…
There was some discussion on Twitter about the appropriateness of this term.
“Wes Anderson is the master of ‘saudade’, the nostalgia for something you never had or that never existed.” What a line (and how accurate)!
— Tanul Thakur (@Plebeian42) June 18, 2014
@plebeian42 @rushmoreacademy Very true – but that’s a stretch of definition of “saudades”
— Jenelle D’Alessandro (@freshgreenbeans) June 18, 2014
@freshgreenbeans I just looked up the word online, and google tells me it can’t be accurately translated to English. + @rushmoreacademy
— Tanul Thakur (@Plebeian42) June 18, 2014
@plebeian42 @rushmoreacademy Saudades = always tied to something once known – longing for what is now gone. Good ref: http://t.co/hLQRqnxqeP
— Jenelle D’Alessandro (@freshgreenbeans) June 18, 2014
@freshgreenbeans @rushmoreacademy @Plebeian42 it’s like a noun for missing something/someone.It’s a feeling, like a vanilla nostalgia.
— Deborah Vasques (@vazquezzz) June 18, 2014
What do you think?