Isle of Dogs (2018 Wes Anderson)

An absolute treat of a film, which despite its setting, frequent use of Japanese titling and beautiful design and symmetry appears to be a US only production.

Written by Wes with frequent collaborators Roman Coppola and Jason Schwartzman, and Konichi Nomura, Isle of Dogs is not really a kids' film, and seems to me to have an underlying taste of the Holocaust, but is extremely funny and beautiful (Q thinks this is the work of a big kid). This is another flat on presentation, like Grand Budapest Hotel, chock full of lateral and vertical tracking shots (which even make their way into the black and white news reports), and brilliant framing and animation.

With the voices of Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Edward Norton, Bob Balaban, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Scarlett Johansson, Greta Gerwig, Frances McDormand, Harvey Keitel, F Murray Abraham, Tilda Swinton and Yoko Ono.

Shot by Tristan Oliver, film frequently resembles a western. Animation director is Mark Waring, music by Alexandre Desplat. Incredible design throughout. Like most of Wes's films, produced by Indian Paintbrush, for Fox Searchlight.