Moonrise Kingdom
BB.5
(out of 5)
Wes Anderson creates another ode to the language of quirk with this disaffected tale of young love between pre-teens. A socially uncomfortable young man spending the summer with Anderson’s version of Boy Scouts eludes his team leader (Edward Norton) and runs away from his camp with the emotionally troubled daughter of the town’s progressively intellectual lawyers (Frances McDormand, Bill Murray). The search for these lovers on the lam turns them into the targets of an attack by emotionally guilty adults (also including police chief Bruce Willis and “Social Services” in the form of a Deborah Kerr’d Tilda Swinton), all of it housed in the visual splendor of the auteur’s affection for grainy brown hues and retro paraphernalia. Anderson’s almost fetishistic obsession with plastic book covers, portable radio players and retro-mod outfits are so loud that they overpower the story, and it does not help that the two youngsters at the centre of it have no chemistry between them to withstand the force of the aesthetic onslaught. In short, it’s far from the glories of Rushmore or The Royal Tenenbaums; where before there was affection there is now only affectation, with the adults playing token roles that do them no justice. The film’s only pockets of sympathy are Norton’s moments with his little charge: the scene where he tells our hero how sorry he is that he finds himself persecuted and alone has all the emotional depth that made all of Rushmore so good, and makes it clear that Anderson chose the wrong characters as his focus.
Indian Paintbrush, American Empirical Pictures
USA, 2012
Directed by Wes Anderson
Screenplay by Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola
Cinematography by Robert D. Yeoman
Produced by Wes Anderson, Jeremy Dawson, Steven Rales, Scott Rudin
Music by Alexandre Desplat
Production Design by Adam Stockhausen
Costume Design by Kasia Walicka-Maimone
Film Editing by Andrew Weisblum
Film Festivals: Cannes 2012
Cast Tags: Ada-Nicole Sanger, Alex Milne, Andreas Sheikh, Ben Haffner,Bill Murray, Bob Balaban,Bruce Willis, Caris Yeoman, Carolyn Pickman, Chandler Frantz,Charlie Kilgore, Christine Noel, Coledyn Garrow,Cooper Murray, Dakota Pimentel, Derek Sardella,Edward Norton, Eric Chase Anderson, Frances McDormand, Gabriel Rush, Harvey Keitel, Hugo DeAscentis, Isabella Guinness, Jack Hartman,Jake Ryan, James Demler,Jared Gilman, Jason Schwartzman, Jean-Michael Pion, John Peet,Johnathon Deneault,Jordan Puzzo, Kara Hayward, Kevin DeCoste,L.J. Foley, Larry Pine, Lily Tiger McEnerney, Liz Callahan, Lucas Hedges,Marianna Bassham, Max Derderian, Michael Malvesti, Neal Huff,Preston Hatch, Richie Conant, Rob H. Campbell, Roman Keitel, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Steve Smith, Tanner Flood, Tilda Swinton, Tommy Nelson,Tyler Metivier, Violet Guinness, Wyatt Ralff
Academy Award Nomination
Best Writing (Original Screenplay (Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola)
Golden Globe Award Nomination
Best Motion Picture-Comedy or Musical
New York Film Critics Award Nomination
Best Screenplay (Roman Coppola, Wes Anderson)
Los Angeles Film Critics Award Nomination
Best Production Design (Adam Stockhausen)
National Board Of Review Award
Top Ten Independent Films
Writers Guild Award Nomination
Best Original Screenplay
Independent Spirit Award Nominations
Best Feature
Best Supporting Male (Bruce Willis)
Best Director (Wes Anderson)
Best Cinematography
British Academy Award Nomination
Best Original Screenplay
Boston Film Critics Award
Best Use of Music in A Film
Nominations
Best Film
Best Screenplay
Best Cinematography
Best Ensemble Cast
