“What I like about ‘Asteroid City’ is its sheer visual beauty, spiced with sweetness, and occasional dashes of real feeling,” writes Tribune critic phillipstribune.
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.A grieiving war photographer discusses sensitive family issues with his father-in-law in"Asteroid City."
The scenes from “Asteroid City,” the play, unfold as a big, bright movie in widescreen color. The town of Asteroid City, somewhere in the American Southwest, hits the screen like a study in Formica, pastels, motor courts and atomic bombs going off in the distance.Each year brings the Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention, where children compete for the best new inventions of the jet-pack or functional ray-gun variety.
Scarlett Johansson plays a famous actress visiting the Junior Stargazer convention in the 1955-set"Asteroid City," co-written and directed by Wes Anderson. Anderson has acknowledged that he and co-writer Coppola thought a lot about early Sam Shepard when they began writing “Asteroid City.” This was after they got hemmed in by their original idea of making a movie about a play set in an Automat. Does the Asteroid City/Manhattan contrast, the story’s central tension between cinematic and theatrical mythmaking, rhyme in interesting ways? Yes. Sometimes.
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