The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor/Panavision 110m
Director: Wes Anderson
Cast: Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, Danny Glover
Synopsis:
The voice of Royal Tenenbaum recounts the story of his family, on whom he cynically walked out years before, as if from the pages of a work of fiction.
Review:
There is indeed something deliberately fantastic about this dysfunctional family, as if from the early pen of Woody Allen. The achievement is that the characters have depth and the overall effect is one of seriousness: we never lose sight of the fact that, for all their absurdities, these are fragile human beings. Perhaps the black humour of the final reel is all too quickly followed by sentiment, but the juggling act is maintained up to the final mock epitaph. American film-making at its fin-de-siècle best.
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor/Panavision 110m
Director: Wes Anderson
Cast: Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, Danny Glover
Synopsis:
The voice of Royal Tenenbaum recounts the story of his family, on whom he cynically walked out years before, as if from the pages of a work of fiction.
Review:
There is indeed something deliberately fantastic about this dysfunctional family, as if from the early pen of Woody Allen. The achievement is that the characters have depth and the overall effect is one of seriousness: we never lose sight of the fact that, for all their absurdities, these are fragile human beings. Perhaps the black humour of the final reel is all too quickly followed by sentiment, but the juggling act is maintained up to the final mock epitaph. American film-making at its fin-de-siècle best.
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor/Panavision 110m
Director: Wes Anderson
Cast: Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, Danny Glover
Synopsis:
The voice of Royal Tenenbaum recounts the story of his family, on whom he cynically walked out years before, as if from the pages of a work of fiction.
Review:
There is indeed something deliberately fantastic about this dysfunctional family, as if from the early pen of Woody Allen. The achievement is that the characters have depth and the overall effect is one of seriousness: we never lose sight of the fact that, for all their absurdities, these are fragile human beings. Perhaps the black humour of the final reel is all too quickly followed by sentiment, but the juggling act is maintained up to the final mock epitaph. American film-making at its fin-de-siècle best.