Grief and wonder breed strange happenings in Anderson's absorbing new sci-fi comedy.
Oscar-nominated cinematographer Robert Yeoman is the longtime Anderson collaborator who provides those familiar compositions that the Texas-born auteur filmmaker is celebrated for, with a wealth of striking tracking shots, portrait close-ups and sweeping horizontal pans all orchestrated to a stirring score by Academy Award-winning composer Alexandre Desplat .
The shallow artifice of post-war America and its simplistic suburban life and honest values is rattled to its foundations here in this dust-draped purgatory, filled to the rim with tropes like jetpacks and ray guns. It's a wonderfully dry cinematic martini freshly concocted from an automated dispenser and consumed as a satisfying tonic for fear just under the shifting sands of life. And just like Wes Anderson's collage of complex characters and their provocative rumination on humanity’s cosmic role and their quest to leave,"Asteroid City" is simply pure intoxicating escapism that goes down oh so smoothly.
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