Wes Anderson's AsteroidCity “is a return to a balance of old,” writes VF's rilaws, with “a whispery poignancy that suggests the film actually means something.”
, is a play within a teleplay within a movie. Some of the action of the film, which premiered here at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday, is a mid-century television special about the making of a stage show by a Thornton Wilder-esque writer played with foppish melancholy by, is brought to vibrant life for us in the audience—though not, necessarily, for the imagined audience of the fictional broadcast.
If that sounds confusing, well, it is. One could spend a fair amount of time scratching one’s head wondering what Anderson is up to with all of this layering. Or one could, as I did, simply give into the meta-textual conceit, relishing in the wistful mood so beautifully, delicately conjured up by America’s foremost purveyor of whimsy.
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