I found myself, often, wearing a big cheesy grin. I laughed, I ogled, I marvelled. What a joyous feast of Anderson.
Elements of Oz, Welles, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Hopper and no doubt a miriad photographic visual influences I am unable to precisely identify; every still frame a masterpiece of thought and composition, every set piece a rolling fiesta of technique, vision, realisation and surrealisation.
All held loosely together with a confusing melange of plot trickery. Which is not a bad thing. Who needs engaging emotional empathy when life is always this beautiful? And interesting.
The bad points? Just the one. A little too often the witty and insightful dialogue is hurriedly thrown away in garbled, over delivered, breathless torrents. It feels as though had just a tiny bit more time and care been taken honing their delivery, I would have enjoyed it all the more.
Still a very rare 10/10 though for me, it's such a minor gripe.
I'm just overjoyed that people are still able to make art cinema like this, and still find a significant audience to appreciate and love it.
Elements of Oz, Welles, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Hopper and no doubt a miriad photographic visual influences I am unable to precisely identify; every still frame a masterpiece of thought and composition, every set piece a rolling fiesta of technique, vision, realisation and surrealisation.
All held loosely together with a confusing melange of plot trickery. Which is not a bad thing. Who needs engaging emotional empathy when life is always this beautiful? And interesting.
The bad points? Just the one. A little too often the witty and insightful dialogue is hurriedly thrown away in garbled, over delivered, breathless torrents. It feels as though had just a tiny bit more time and care been taken honing their delivery, I would have enjoyed it all the more.
Still a very rare 10/10 though for me, it's such a minor gripe.
I'm just overjoyed that people are still able to make art cinema like this, and still find a significant audience to appreciate and love it.