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In many ways, I’m glad to see him push his filmmaking style to its limits here, though I wonder if perhaps it might be time for the auteur director to ease back on the pedal a bit for his next film. It was also peak Wes Anderson, which you can tell from just watching the trailers. I, however, found it at once delightfully quirky, genuinely hilarious and profoundly sad. Suffice to say, I was surprised at how moved I was by this strange encounter.Īgain, I realize that Asteroid City isn’t for everyone, that some will leave scratching their heads, baffled or annoyed. But it’s really a story about loss and grief, and tucked away in a sea of cameos (seriously, has any movie ever had this many big stars?) it’s mostly about Augie and Midge and the way these two lonely people come together in the unlikeliest of places.īecause of the film’s structure, however, the key emotional moment in the film takes place not between these two, but rather in black and white, between Jones and the actress who was supposed to play his wife in the play, but whose role was cut. There’s a bit of Moonlight Kingdom’s vibe here, with a lot of focus on the younger cast. Several families arrive at Asteroid City to observe an astral phenomenon and to present their inventions. The basic story in the main plot is simple enough. The film’s dual plots interweave cleverly throughout, with the whole thing broken up into Acts and Scenes, segmented with title cards.
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