WES ANDERSON - BRIAN DE PALMA LIKED 'ASTEROID CITY' EVEN MORE ON SECOND VIEWING
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Writing from the Cannes Film Festival, AP Film Writer Jake Coyle states that Asteroid City, which premiered at the festival, is among Wes Anderson's "most charmingly chock-full creations, a much-layered, ’50s-set fusion of science fiction, midcentury theater and about a hundred other influences ranging from Looney Tunes to Bad Day at Black Rock." Coyle adds that "the film, which Anderson wrote with Roman Coppola, takes place in a Southwest desert town where a group of characters, some of them nursing an unspoken grief, gather for various reasons, be it a stargazing convention or a broken-down car. But even that story is part of a Russian Doll fiction. It's a play being performed — which, itself, is being filmed for a TV broadcast."
Coyle quotes Anderson: "I do feel like this might be a movie that benefits from being seen twice. Brian De Palma liked it the first time and had a much bigger reaction on the second time. But what can you say? You can't make a movie and say, ‘I think it’s best everyone sees it twice.'"