'Wes Anderson is a film artist like no other. In defiance of realism, he builds dazzling, minimalist, all-star jewel boxes on screen that are easy to spoof but impossible to equal.'
Jake Ryan as"Woodrow", Jason Schwartzman as"Augie Steenbeck" and Tom Hanks as"Stanley Zak" in a scene from"Asteroid City."Wes Anderson is a film artist like no other. In defiance of realism, he builds dazzling, minimalist, all-star jewel boxes on screen that are easy to spoof but impossible to equal. That's why his most distinctive work, from "Rushmore" to "The Grand Budapest Hotel," endures.
Set in 1955 in the fictional southwestern desert town of Asteroid City, pop. 87, the movie gathers teen stargazers -- and their parents -- at a convention that awards science scholarships. Atomic testing booms nearby, where a 100-foot meteor crater sparks concern about the government's space program. And just wait till an alien shows up and everyone is quarantined.Pop.
It turns out Augie has his eye on Grace's mother, Midge Campbell , a Marilyn Monroe-ish movie star known for her art-imitates-life roles as abused alcoholics. Johansson digs deep into the death-wishing Midge in all her tragic and comic implications. And she and Schwartzman forge a connection that feels real.
Jake Ryan as"Woodrow", Jason Schwartzman as"Augie Steenbeck" and Tom Hanks as"Stanley Zak" in a scene from"Asteroid City."It's here that Schwartzman takes the role of Jones Hall, an actor who worries that he might be playing Augie all wrong as he expresses his doubts to an actress whose scene as Augie's wife were shot and then cut from the finished TV play.
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