The rosy and pacy life at the hotel is disrupted when dowager Madame D, a frequent hotel visitor and Gustave’s love interest, dies mysteriously.
Gustave ( Ralph Fiennes ), a suave man of the most medieval romantic mannerisms. What follows is a 17-cast ensemble taking us through 1930s Zubrowka, wherein a war-torn refugee Zero ( Tony Revolori ) applies to be a bell-boy at The Grand Budapest Hotel under the aegis and guidance of M. While at the now sombre but once stately Grand Budapest Hotel in the fictional, picturesque country of Zubrowka, a renowned author interviews the owner Zero Moustafa about the heydays of the hotel. And if that wasn’t nightmarish enough for Dracula, his daughter falls in love with a human who accidentally gatecrashes her birthday party. She wants to be independent and venture off to human settlements. Everything is fun and rosy for years till Mavis’ 118th birthday. From this insecurity stems Hotel Transylvania, a high-end hotel exclusively for monsters. He believes humankind is a threat to the survival of fellow monsters. Widower Count Dracula is very protective of his daughter Mavis, and has his mind stuck in the dark ages. But what happens in the Lotus, stays in the Lotus. There is something eerie in store for The White Lotus.
Oriental, like many Hollywood films set in the east, in its approach to Hawaii, The White Lotus uses generous amounts of tribal calls, congas and bongos as a foreboding background score. It also throws light on the challenges of the hospitality industry and how goof-ups, deliberate or not, can always be covered up with a contrived but convincing smile. With a satirical narrative straight out of an academic discourse on colonialism and imperialism, The White Lotus, a 6-episode series, focuses on the lives of a bunch of rich, white, egocentric tourists on a detox vacation at the titular hotel in Hawaii.