Moonrise Kingdom

Une vision originale du camp scout et je comprends maintenant assez bien pourquoi tout le monde écrit que les films de Wes Anderson sont inclassables. La prestation des deux enfants jouant les rôles centraux est excellente et mes chers Norton et Willis se retrouvent dans une position inhabituelle. Qui sait, peut-être un jour arriverai-je à regarder La Vie aquatique, sachant que j’ai déjà essayé une fois, mais ai dû arrêter après dix minutes tellement je m’ennuyais ? (01/10/2012)

Wes Anderson lives in a strange world full of strange and crazy people. It seems a bit as if his films had eaten a ton of mushrooms before the screening, and I watched the rain alternating with cloudy weather. And that’s when the moon comes out. Anyway, I have to say plainly that I expected a little more, mainly because of the great cast who appear in the film. That included both my favorite Bruce Willis and, on the contrary, Edward Norton, with whom I never know what to think, as well as the director’s staples like Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman, who are always joy to watch. I didn’t have a problem with the actors; what was worse was the storytelling and the scouts, who seemed to have crawled out of the factory for the absolute. It was nice, but it was weird and that’s why the three stars are just right. (04/01/2013)

I have to say that this time the whole is less than the sum of its parts. In Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson works everything (everything that the eye can see) to the tiniest detail, which is nice and I appreciate it, but the charm of the story gets drowned under all that heavy and refined splendour. Visually, it’s beautiful – it was a lot of fun to pour over each scene and notice how Anderson moves with the camera (the opening credits!) – but I never got into the story and it didn’t affect me at all on an emotional level. All of Anderson’s films are standoffish, but you can find in them places to feel sad or moved… but here I missed them. The same applies to his characters, they are all (very) weird, but this time I missed the vitality I felt in Mr. Fox, Zissou and others. In Moonrise Kingdom I only found that vitality in Bill Murray’s character (the night scene in the bed), who was given very little space. Immediately after watching it, an unenthusiastic 80%, but it needs to lager a couple of days. (19/07/2012)

Anderson's scout sale - contrived, copied from previous deeds, atypically unfinished (so many ideas simply just fade out), and more than anemic in terms of the storytelling. I accept the poetry of the first loves and boy's camping, but I expect more from Wes than the amusing shallowness, which mainly turns into a total spasm in the end. (07/07/2012)

Sam and Suzy come up with a masterpiece reputation, but they convince me of what I suspected a long time ago. When Anderson talks about family relationships, I am much happier than when he relies fully on nostalgia in coming-of-age stories. That's why I continue to smile with The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, or the underestimated Darjeeling Limited, and on the other hand, a few things bother me about Moonrise Kingdom, which moodily joins forces with Rushmore. All the usual shyness and elusiveness suddenly seem too deliberate for me, and the dialogues are always slightly overdone, to make Wes's typical moods easier to recognize. Bruce Willis, meticulous Edward Norton, and perpetually serious Kara Hayward work perfectly, but even they did not convince me to go on this road trip again. (16/10/2012)