You can recognize a Wes Anderson film from a distance. Every detail is coordinated, mostly symmetrical and colorful. This is also the case in Asteroid City. But this time the director has outdone himself, when he built an entire small town in the Spanish desert. This can now be admired in the home cinema version.
As Bonus material The Blu-ray * and the DVD version offer the making-of of “Asteroid City” with the following sections:
If you can do without the bonus material, you can find Asteroid City as a stream on Amazon Prime *.
An entire city is built from nothing
Was located near Madrid shot on a farmlandexplains production designer Adam Stockhausen in an interview with Dezeen. The striking red soil, which is intended to be reminiscent of a Martian landscape, was important for the film’s intense color concept and was transported from a nearby quarry. It was a great effort to build a functioning city in isolationnot just empty backdrops, as Stockhausen reveals:
We ended up doing civil engineering work to lay electricity, water pipes and sewers so that the place functioned like a city and not just a complex dependent on infrastructure elsewhere.
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Asteroid City is Wes Anderson’s eleventh film.
These mega-stars have been in more than one Wes Anderson film
In addition to a striking setting and an intricate plot, another characteristic of an Anderson film is a cast that largely consists of mega stars, as is the case in his eleventh film. Bill Murray, the has appeared in nine films so far, was unable to take part in the production due to corona disease. Instead, repeat offenders include Jason Schwartzman, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum and Tony Revolori. Scarlett Johansson and Tom Hanks take takes her place on the brightly colored set for the first time.
That’s what Asteroid City is all about
America, mid-1950s: The Junior Stargazer Congress takes place in the desert town of Asteroid City, which has 87 inhabitants. But the contemplative The village is thrown into unrest when an alien lands and in short it is declared a restricted zone by the military: no one can come in, no one can get out. Among them is the widower Mitch Campbell (Jason Schwartzman) with his four children and his father-in-law Stanley (Tom Hanks). A new friendship develops between him and the actress Midge (Scarlett Johansson), who is also stuck.
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