The latest film from quirky, pastel-palette-loving director Wes Anderson, Asteroid City, tells a story of ambitious space exploration but makes it eccentric, elegant, yet cerebral.
After the out-of-this-world reception of’s premiere during the Cannes Film Festival last month, the mind-bending tale is one to watch.
But, at the same time, Asteroid City plays host to parents and their unusual stargazing children, cowboys, an actress and an alien, for a stargazing competition., two characters are standouts. There’s newly widowed Augie Steenbeck who brings his three children to the town, however, they do not know that their mother has died.
The subplots and the massive cast can be confusing and overwhelming for audiences who are not familiar with the formula of Anderson’s previous films, such as The Grand Budapest Hotel and The French Dispatch, both of which also have multilayered plots. does not allow audiences to fully realise the complexity of each character throughout the constant back-and-forth between scenes.
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