Aaron. ⬛🌫️⬜🟪

Asteroid City

- i've realized, that after these past few days of the anderson-dahl adaptations, i really enjoy rupert friend as a performer. i, too, june, fell for montana. - but, on a more focused note, i loved asteroid city. the dialogue, the narrative direction, so many dynamics between the characters and their situations, their responses. it was such a busy film to me, but it all moved so well, cohesively. - this alternate universe was a nice space to be a witness to, and anderson has revitalized, for me, the notion of just appreciating a story.

cheska

Asteroid City

spent a whole 10 minutes trying to think if i actually understand the movie but then i suddenly remember that conversation jones and schubert and the actress and all of a sudden everything came crushing down and now i’m upset and my life is altered a bit. like that was kind of excellent.

grimmer

Asteroid City

Watched at Cannes film festival in the Agnès Varda theatre which was an unbelievable experience, one I’m very grateful for and very glad to have experienced it. There wasn’t an empty chair of course which made this even better. The film itself is a fun time, in the style we have all come to know, and the cast is absolutely fantastic. Wasn’t keen on the narration elements and felt the film could’ve been better just as a film to be honest, but yeah I loved the colour and it was funny on several occasions. Plus to alien is very goofy looking, both for good and bad.

breakfastcowl

Asteroid City

"What about Dr. Hickenlooper?!" Another lovely outing; lovely to look at, lovely to consider. For all the formalized actions and trivials and procedures his characters throw in the way of themselves, it never fully tamps down their ability to feel -> often in such quietly eruptive ways. And such formal structure here, bracketed by Stage Rights and Stage Lefts and a deluge of wink-worthy in-&-outs between cast, characters, audience. The meta is half the fun. I really enjoy how often he builds a framework for his movies within existing culture and times past, where the re-tellings are from a vantage point when these histories have long filtered through and inspired the culture at large. The era itself may be long gone, but it's a retrospective made continually alive as successive generations take it to heart, injecting new meaning to shared struggles.