Tuesday 27 January 2015

Bottle Rocket (1996 Wes Anderson & co-scr)

Wes's debut (and an extension of his 1994 short with same name and cast), clearly the work of a young man in its zippy pacing, set-ups and editing (by David Moritz) and typically eclectic music choices, in quirky and mad tale of friends Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson (co-scr) and Robert Musgrave and their terrible careers in crime, which variously involve Lumi Cavazos, James Caan and other odd characters (Kumar Pallana will be recognisable from some of his other films) and another Wilson, Andrew, as the bully.

Robert Yeoman hasn't yet established that very rich photographic style that no doubt contributed to his Oscar nomination for Grand Budapest Hotel this year.

A little rough, but funny and distinctive.

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