WAnderson welcomes us to his home in Paris. In a miniature home workshop that seems to come straight from one of his films. The handsome director has barely returned from the Cannes Film Festival – where he was Asteroid city presented in the competition – that he was immersed in rehearsals for his next UFO. “It will be a very Shakespearean film” he says without revealing the plot… The ideas collide and contrast with the apparent calm of the 54-year-old filmmaker with youthful features. This morning he is wearing a pastel green shirt and we are reminded of the little green man, an alien who emerges from a flying saucer and is catapulted into his film in the guise of actor Jeff Goldblum. Wes Anderson, the alien? Yes, there is, and this new film is proof that Planet Anderson is a world unto itself. After the founding of the French city of Ennui-sur-Blasé and the American city of Liberty The French shipping (2021) this time takes us to the asteroid city, in the middle of the American desert, in the mid-1950s. In this tiny town, which took its name from the meteorite that hit there and near which nuclear tests are being carried out, people from all over the world came to take part in an awards ceremony where five talented young people were honored for their scientific work. But after unexpected events, the group has to live together longer than expected, in a kind of open-air prison. In the paralysis of her bungalow, actress Midge Campbell (Scarlett Johansson) desperately tries to learn the dialogue for her next film by asking talented photographer Augie Steenbeck (Jason Schwartzman) to give her the lines. Of course, the desert setting is a fiction within a fiction, depicting the meanderings of a playwright (Edward Norton) and a director (Adrian Brody) as they struggle to bring this cursed play to the stage. Asteroid cityOn Broadway…
Hello Earth? Jason Schwartzman and Tom Hanks in the desert of “Asteroid City”, Wes Anderson’s new madness.
Infinite. A graduate of philosophy at the University of Austin, Texas – where he shared Owen Wilson’s room – Wes Anderson immediately recognizes that his work is permeated by a multitude of existential and metaphysical questions: grief, but also transference, progress, infinities, the Meaning of existence… “During my studies, I was fascinated by the writings of the logician Gottlob Frege and the work of the rhetorician IA Richards. Of course I wouldn’t be able to read them today, but I think these thinkers are still floating around in my head. That’s the magic of philosophy: you study it for a few years with the impression that you understand parts of it, not everything, and it stays with you throughout your life. » If he’s an HPI like the kids in his movie? “Unfortunately not. I’m fascinated by gifted children because I think I’ve dreamed of being one for a long time. There’s something extraordinary that draws me irresistibly to these people. Isn’t it great not having to do anything to achieve excellence? » Meditate.
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“Asteroid City”
With this eleventh feature film, the director of Moonrise Kingdom takes us to a fictional American town in 1955, where gifted students and neurotic parents came to attend the Junior Stargazer conference. Two years after the mixed reception The French shippingSo here we are again with Wes Anderson Asteroid city, between homage to science fiction and existential search, and its new five-star cast (Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Margot Robbie, Adrien Brody, Steve Carell…). In the middle of this beautiful world, a flying saucer lands with a strange alien on board. The ideas flow, as do the jokes, and Anderson once again has a spark. In cinemas from June 21st.
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