MOONRISE KINGDOM

Oddly beautiful. Wes Anderson.’s Moonrise Kingdom, with Benjamin Britten’s Variations on a Henry Purcell Theme as soundtrack, is in itself, an orchestral piece. All actions are pictorial and musical compositions and variations on the main theme – adolescent love.

Set in a 1965’s scout camp, the movie takes to the skies the lives of two adolescents, outcasts from expected, proper, where hypocrisy is in some way needed, society. The two twelve year old youngsters, boy and girl, fall in love and run away together. They are persecuted, trapped, separated only to run away again ‘til the final, possibly fatal outcome when they are presented with an alternative – the trust in the world of grown up people. They choose wisely, inappropriately for their age. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet are given a different ending, a less probable one, a happy one.

Director Wes Anderson leaves nothing to chance, a perfect ensemble of cast and crew. Superb photography and music set a mood a little too close to grotesque. Still, a work of art.

Cast and crew:

Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

Director: Wes Anderson

Cast: Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Kara Hayward, Jared Gilman, Bill Murray, Bob Balabam (narrator)…

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