His new movie, Asteroid City, brings a necessary madness to the meticulous director’s method, and it amounts to a masterpiece.
brings a necessary madness to the meticulous director’s method, and it amounts to a masterpiece.This review originally published in May out of the Cannes Film Festival. We are recirculating it now thatTo the casual observer, Wes Anderson might seem like someone who either refuses to read his own press or has bought into his press to an absurd degree.
Bold curiosity is in the air, as this dead-end ghost town has been overrun by Young Stargazers and Space Cadets, a group of teens and their families who have gathered for a contest thrown by the U.S. military and the local observatory. Among the families are the Steenbecks, led by widowed war-photographer father Augie , who hasn’t yet told his kids that their mom died several weeks ago. As in so many Anderson films, the kids are precocious introverts, while the adults are comically haunted.
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