After the presentation at Cannes 2023, the exit in the hall in Italy and the passage on Sky and NOW arrives on clear TV on Iris Wednesday 15 July Asteroid City of Wes Anderson. A film that has taken various criticisms just like the previous The French Dispatch and that now we go to the chase for you.
Asteroid City recensione: un’opera confezionata ad hoc
Asteroid City takes place in an imaginary American city in the desert in 1955. The itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention (organized to bring together students and parents from all over the country for an academic and aging competition) is spectacularly shocked by events that change the world.
The film has all the characteristics of Wes Anderson’s films: frames composed of a thousandth, perfectly designed to be symmetrical, balanced and beautiful to see. A photo and a scene that play with colors and that here extremize the surreality of the protagonist town that gives the title to the film. We were almost in a carnival in the desert. The stories of the characters that are stuck in the location intersect among them bringing to light various themes, which are not always thoroughly deepened because, never as in this work, the cast is really immense so as to understand also actors of great caliber that make a cameo of a few seconds.
But also on this play the film which is a kind of great meta-theatral structure that plays with the staged characters, the troupe behind the scenes and so on. Also a seemingly insignificant and passing sequence such as the one in which one of the characters meets an actress from another parallel set, can become a pretext to disregard the assembly, the cut scenes and what will remain to the viewer to the vision. The role of the author in his work.
In many people they say that Wes Anderson creates these visually impeccable packs as are his films leaving them empty internally and not thinking about the audience that will have to use them. Actually, the heart is not missing in this film – we think of the story between the characters of Jason Schwartzman and Scarlett Johansson, who shine among others. Above all, the filmmaker plays continuously with its viewers, you do not forget them and indeed try to involve them, in his own way, and convince them to enter once again in his fantastic world.
A fantastic world that speaks of mourning, loss and alienation processing, through the use of a visually incredible and original extraterrestrial, which only Anderson could come to mind in this visual form after all those seen in the cinema. The contact with another species is as scary as that with another human being, and this is what unites the strange adolescent protagonists who won the spatial contest and, by reflection, also the parents who accompanied them.
Asteroid City is a film that speaks of incommunicability, both of species and of generational between parents and children, as well as of need of contact with each other. It is therefore not a case that has been realized in these years of pandemic. But he also talks about the relationship of an author with his own work, just like Wes with his own audience.
Asteroid City il trailer
Asteroid City il cast
Jason Schwartzman: Augie Steenbeck / Jones Hall
Scarlett Johansson: Midge Campbell / Mercedes Ford
Tom Hanks: Stanley Zak
Jeffrey Wright: General Grif Gibson
Tilda Swinton: Dr. Hickenlooper
Bryan Cranston: presenter
Edward Norton: Conrad Earp
Adrien Brody: Schubert Green
J.J. Kellogg
Hope Davis: Sandy Borden
Steve Park: Roger.
Rupert Friend: Montana
Maya Hawke: June Douglas
Steve Carell: motel manager
Matt Dillon: Hank.
Hong Chau: Polly Green
Willem Dafoe: Saltzburg Keitel
Margot Robbie: dead wife of Steenbeck
Tony Revolori: Gen.
Jake Ryan: Woodrow Steenbeck
Jeff Goldblum: alien
Sophia Lillis: ♪
Rita Wilson: Mrs Weatherford
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