The writer-director's 1955-set feature, starring Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks and many others, toggles between a desert town and a New York soundstage.
“Asteroid City,” Wes Anderson’s half-irritating, half-intoxicating desert bloom of a movie, unfolds mostly in 1955 in a small Southwest town — a postcard-perfect oasis surrounded by cactuses, red rocks and vast horizons.
Welcome to Asteroid City, a gorgeous piece of scenery even by Anderson’s standards and an open-air museum of antiquarian delights, with its 40-cent milkshakes, vintage vending machines and pastel-hued automobiles. It is also, at this early stage, a museum happily devoid of visitors.
It’s an archly overarching framing device delineated by boxily framed black-and-white images and given prominent positioning throughout Anderson’s two-act screenplay . Early on, we meet some of the creative forces behind this production, including a Tennessee Williams-ish playwright and an Elia Kazan-esque director . And then there’s the cast, which is where things get especially meta-tortured: Schwartzman, Johansson, Hanks et al.
You’ll do plenty of stargazing yourself during “Asteroid City,” and not just of the celestial variety. That’s Steve Carell puttering away as the motel’s eager-to-please manager, busily preparing rooms for various harried convention guests played by Liev Schreiber, Hope Davis and Stephen Park. Matt Dillon tools around in an auto garage, Maya Hawke teaches a class of science whizzes, and Rupert Friend sings, plays the guitar and wears beautifully stitched denim.
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