Directed by WES ANDERSON
Starring JASON SCHWARTZMAN, SCARLETT JOHANSSON, TOM HANKS
Released 21 JUNE
The last time Wes Anderson took us on a class trip to the theatre, optional safety glasses and earplugs were provided to all patrons. With his scintillating and archly metafictional new work, Asteroid City, he allows us to bask in the frivolous delights of a play, while also carefully dismantling the process of artistic creation in real time. It’s the type of film you might imagine the great Max Fischer himself might have directed had his scholastic brief encompassed a bells-and-whistles homage to mid-century pulp science fiction.
For this one, with its telescopic sights set on the outer pockets of existence, travellers are loaded up with a goldfish bowl space helmet, a vintage SLR camera, a vending machine Martini and some industry-grade seatbelts, all the better for protecting from the whiplash one might experience
