"Asteroid City" Directed by Wes Anderson #asteroidcity #moviereview #filmreview #movies #film

"I ADORE the films of Texas born filmmaker Wes Anderson. Although this career retrospective article only contains the first 8 films (Bottle Rocket in 1996 through to The Grand Budapest Hotel in 2014), you will also find my appreciations of 2018’s Isle of Dogs and 2021’s rather disappointing The French Dispatch within my “Film” library here and suffice to say, every new release from the American director is eagerly awaited in the same vein as a new film from the Coen Brothers, Quentin Tarantino or Christopher Nolan to name just three of many, many more. So eagerly awaited in fact that I watched Asteroid City in its first available slot on opening day yesterday and just for good measure I returned at exactly the same time today to watch it all over again, this time in the company of my cinema loving son.

So it must be good, right, to return to see the film twice in 24 hours?

Well yes, and disappointingly no, but I warmed to the film considerably second time around and my original disappointment has dissipated somewhat and given the means and opportunity, I’ll watch it again for a third time on the big screen if only to watch an opening quarter of an hour of a film that was almost cinematic perfection".

The above excerpt forms part of the opening to my June 2023 film review of "Asteroid City" and the video ends with an admission but shush, please don't tell my son!

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