![]() This means we also get mostly unrevealing glimpses of the performers playing roles in the desert play-within-the-TV program. The program is a behind-the-scenes tour of the creative process of mounting a play for the stage and the key characters involved all draw loose inspiration from midcentury artists and institutions, like the Actors Studio. ![]() But each time their thread threatens to acquire substance, Anderson cuts away to some pointless vignette or some finicky bit of business that makes the entire over-crowded gallery of characters seem remote.Ī big part of that is the over-complicated framing device, a black-and-white Playhouse 90-type television showcase introduced by an unnamed host (Bryan Cranston), who presents Asteroid City as a play by Conrad Earp (Edward Norton), directed by Schubert Green (Adrien Brody) and cast with an ensemble plucked from the drama collective of Saltzburg Keitel (Willem Dafoe). Schwartzman and Johansson are the movie’s standouts, bringing an element of poignant yearning and subsumed hurt to their characters. At the same time, young love blossoms between their respective children, Woodrow (Jake Ryan) and Dinah (Grace Edwards). In exchanges neatly framed by the facing windows of their bungalows at the Motor Court Motel, a fleeting but intense romantic connection develops. The chief exceptions are Augie Steinbeck (Jason Schwartzman), a recently widowed war photographer, and Midge Campbell (Scarlett Johansson), a movie star who has a history with violent men. Throw in Tilda Swinton as an eccentric astronomer bestowing an annual scholarship on a lucky space cadet, and what could be more Anderson-esque, right? In theory yes, but it’s hard to engage with characters and situations that feel so studied, so stuck in a script that rarely allows them any emotional development - especially when the director himself seems so removed from them. Here, that’s quite literally the case as he strands a bunch of people in 1955 in a tiny fictitious desert town in the American Southwest with a population of 87, isolating them there after an alien encounter that prompts the government to step in and impose military quarantine.Īt the center of all the excitement is a precociously brilliant group of young teenagers accompanied by their parents to a Junior Stargazers convention, where they will be honored for their wacky scientific inventions at a ceremony held in the basin of a huge meteorite crater. Anderson has always been like a smart kid playing in a hermetically sealed sandbox of quirky action figures and quaint toys. ![]() The writer-director seldom seems more self-satisfied than when he’s spinning his wheels. Premiering in the main Cannes competition ahead of its June 23 release through Focus, the archly cutesy new film joins the ranks of Anderson’s more distancing work, notably The Darjeeling Limited and The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou. Urn:oclc:608489371 Republisher_date 20120814082124 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120813175453 Scanner : Cannes Film Festival (Competition)Ĭast: Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Liev Schreiber, Hope Davis, Stephen Park, Rupert Friend, Maya Hawke, Steve Carell, Matt Dillon, Hong Chau, Willem Dafoe, Margot Robbie OL8076546W Page-progression lr Pages 46 Ppi 350 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0698113624 Urn:lcp:legendofindian00depa:epub:baad2f29-4e15-4fdf-a85c-985b5ff58667 Extramarc UCLA Voyager Foldoutcount 0 Identifier legendofindian00depa Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t18k8hs8t Isbn 0590447068 Lccn 87020160 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL22859282M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:33:32 Boxid IA136809 Boxid_2 BL11203T Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor
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