35mm and DCP List Autumn 2012 - Access Cinema

The two communicate by imitating bird calls, with the anarchic Kosmos actually capable
of levitating. Deliberately slow and mysterious, this story of the clash between a force of
nature defying human laws and the inability of man to accept it will put audience
patience to the test, but there is no denying it looks impressive on the cinema screen. -
Dan Fainaru, Screen International
Moonrise Kingdom
Dir: Wes Anderson USA 2012 94 mins Cert: 12A
Starring: Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, Harvey
Keitel, Jason Schwartzman, Tilda Swinton
Language: English
Available: From September
Formats: 35mm + D-Cinema
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=535wx3DJeDw
The sweetness, sadness and charm of Wes Anderson's new film — co-written with
Roman Coppola – opened the Cannes film festival in a delicate minor key. In some
ways, it might have made a more piquant closing gala
This was an evocation of young love in a younger, more innocent America. It was a very
charming, beautifully wrought, if somehow depthless film — eccentric but heartfelt, and
thought through to the tiniest, quirkiest detail in the classic Anderson style: there were
the familiar rectilinear shots, and compositions with letters and drawings suddenly filled
the screen like courtroom exhibits.
Anderson's movies often mark out their own weirdly regressive, faintly dysfunctional
space, from which the modern world has been politely excluded, and where the
occupants communicate in a kind of modified, private language. Now he takes us back
to 1965, a little coastal town in New England called New Penzance. Perhaps, in its unswinging
quaintness, it is more truthful to the homely values of a small-town America
which often looked the same in the 60s as it did in the 50s and 40s, though this is
Anderson-America in the Anderson-60s, a knight's-move away from the actual time and
place.
Where David Lynch finds a dark horror beneath the wholesome exterior, Anderson sees
something else — something exotic but practical and self-possessed, a world that ticks
along like an antique toy, much treasured by a precocious child. The homes and
buildings often look like giant dolls' houses.
Teenage newcomers Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward play Sam and Suzy, two smart,
unpopular kids who fall in love. Sam is a member of the local scout troop. An orphan,
clever if not precisely wise beyond his years, and affecting a corn-cob pipe, he
resembles a young Douglas MacArthur. Suzy likes sci-fi novels and the music of
Françoise Hardy, which she plays on a portable Dansette-style record player.
When they run away together, Anderson shows how the ensuing crisis discloses the
older generation's unhappiness. Bill Murray and Frances McDormand are Suzy's
parents; their marriage is in crisis and they are sunk in anxiety and self-pity. Bruce Willis
is the police chief – lonely and depressed for reasons of his own – and Edward Norton is