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Weightless Adventure
Moonrise Kingdom sweet but stalls
MOONRISE KINGDOM :
Directed by Wes
Anderson. Written by Anderson and Roman Coppola.
Cinematography, Robert D. Yeoman. Editor, Andrew
Weisblum. Music, Alexandre Deesplat. Starring
Kara Hayward, Jared Gilman, Frances McDormand,
Edward Norton, Bruce Willis and Bill Murray. Focus
Features, 2012. PG-13. 94 minutes. 00021
M
oonrise Kingdom is so charming,
so quaintly and perfectly
designed, like a pretty diorama
in which Wes Anderson carefully places
his actor-dolls, that it feels curmudgeonly
to dislike it. And I don’t dislike it, exactly;
I’m just not sure I feel much of anything
about it. Everything is in its right place;
the shots are beautiful, the sets just so.
Two kids set out separately across a New
England island, toting impossibly stylish
bags, outfi tted in dashing Khaki Scout
uniforms and white socks. Via charming
letters — which we hear snippets of, in
overlapping narration, in one of the fi lm’s
best sequences — they’ve planned to run
away together. The bare bones of their
plot is borrowed from any number of kids’
novels of years gone by, but those kids
never slept together in their underwear or
said things like, “I love you, but you have
no idea what you’re talking about.”
Are these kids, or miniature adults? Are
the adults any more mature? Khaki Scout
Master Ward (Edward Norton) means
well, but it’s on his watch that Sam (Jared
Gilman) escapes. The Bishops (Frances
McDormand and Bill Murray) mutter at
each other and yell at their kids through
a megaphone; their daughter Suzy (Kara
Hayward) escapes their lovely waterfront
house — to which we’re introduced
via a long march of a shot past endless
perfectly set-decorated rooms — toting
her little brother’s record player. The
lovelorn sheriff (Bruce Willis) is in love
with Mrs. Bishop, and Social Services
(Tilda Swinton, briefl y swanning in from
her home planet) doesn’t have a name. In
asides, Bob Balaban appears, elaborating
on the island’s history or the state of the
oncoming storm.
All the pieces are in place for a movie
that pushes all the right buttons, but
something stalls. Anderson has cited as
infl uences all the same classic kids’ fantasy
novels that I loved — A Wrinkle in Time;
Susan Cooper’s Dark is Rising series —
but despite the fact that his characters
are trying to live in their own fantasy
world, both the magic and the weight of
the best adventure stories are missing.
The kids, particularly Suzy, are so wry, so
precocious, that it’s sometimes hard to see
how much their adventure means to them.
Sam has a sweet openness, but neither
of them show anything approaching
enthusiasm or youthful passion. Nostalgic
and worldly, Moonrise Kingdom is a very
adult memory of a particular kind of
adventure story, one that leaves out real
fear and real heart.
The exceptions to this twee solemnity
are slightly unexpected. As usual, Frances
McDormand brings an earthy urgency to
her role, and Bruce Willis, of all people,
has such a laid-back, slightly aching
presence that he too cracks the fi lm’s layer
of emotional lacquer. Norton’s scoutmaster
has an earnestness that we too rarely see
from him, and Bill Murray, in The Bill
Murray Role, gets some of the best lines
(of course).
Moonrise Kingdom is ever so
Andersonian — the attention to detail, the
hip references, the cool distance, the wise-
beyond-their-years kids struggling against
the bland, normal world of adults. The
pieces are all neatly aligned, the players
perfectly cast, the story laid out just so,
the camera right up in the pretty young
faces of the stars. But as much as the fi lm
presses immediacy, it never pulls you in
by the heart; it’s something to admire, a
pristine and carefully groomed garden, not
a blooming, growing thing you can love.
It’s what Anderson does best, and full
points to him for that: You’d never mistake
Moonrise Kingdom for anyone else’s work.
You just might not care either way.
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