Moonrise Kingdom

Imaginatively amazing...Kara Hayward...Jared Gilman..Moonrise Kingdom.

Wes Anderson's latest film is a bizarre mixture of normality and the absurd. He defies all walls in film-making and just goes for it. The result is great. It's set in the mid-60's on the fictional island of New Penzance. Teenage newcomers, Kara Hayward and Jared Gilman play Suzy and Sam. Sam is a Khaki Scout, and an orphan living in a home along with lots of other boys, Suzy is a disturbed child that spies on her parents, (Bill Murray and Frances McDormand.) They are going through a troubled marriage - sleeping in single beds and calling each other, "counsellor." Sam and Suzy decide to run away together and a search party goes off to find them, headed by the police chief, Captain Sharp (played by Bruce Willis.) Sam's weedy Scout Master (Edward Norton) also enlists his bitchy troop to help search for the pair. It's sweet and innocent, and keeps the audience entertained. Wes Anderson has created his own outlandish world that I wish to see more of in the future.




4/5