Love Me Tonight (1932)
Directed by Rouben Mamoulian
A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.
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What critics compared Love Me Tonight to
Zubrowka, the film tells us, was "once the seat of an empire," and so "The Grand Budapest Hotel" harks to the first decade or so of sound cinema, an era of Hollywood comedies, romances and musicals set in quaint and elaborate mythical or Americanized European countries; sample titles include Rouben Mamoulian's "Love Me Tonight" (1932), "Swiss Miss" (1938) with Laurel and Hardy, and such operetta-inspired Ernst Lubitsch productions as "The Smiling Lieutenant" and "The Merry Widow."
Several things hold the film together, the most notable being Claude-Michel Schönberg's music and the English lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer, which like Rouben Mamoulian's 1932 Love Me Tonight and Jacques Demy's Les Parapluies de Cherbourg and Les Demoiselles de Rochefort are sung through using rhyming couplets at all times.
I don’t mean just the elaborate transformation from black-and-white, cobwebbed decay to gilt and red freshness, but also brilliant moments like when the camera tracks past the gas footlights bursting into flame in time with the music (a scene reminiscent of the rhythmic chimney smoke in Rouben Mamoulian’s Love Me Tonight).