Sunday 29 March 2020

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004 Wes Anderson & co-scr)

Written with Noah Baumbach. What's the story about? A man bonds with his supposed son, who then dies. (It turns out he isn't.) But all the crew support him and he's vindicated in search for quasi-mythical jaguar shark. Incredibly divisive movie - looking at IMDB you seem to get as many 10/10 as 1/10. Packed with amusing detail, held together by committed performance from Bill Murray. Unmistakably from the bizarre imagination of Wes Anderson, filmed in his usual lateral style with groovy colours to match.

Filmed in Italy and at Cinecitta.

With Owen Wilson, Anjelica Huston, Kate Blanchett, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Michael Gambon, Noah Taylor, Bud Cort, Seu Jorge, Robyn Cohen, Waris Ahluwalia.

The moment they descend to the sea floor to that tinny Amstrad-type music just shouldn't work, yet somehow it does.



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