Lovely

Rating: 9/10 (24 July 2015)

Completely and utterly Wes Anderson movie, which means highly recognizable visual style, quirky characters and a universe of its own. With time they will be remembered as influential and classics, now being current they are criticized for being outside of the box. I can't help but seeing "Amelie" in all of this, but this is my problem and it doesn't really take away from the fact that Anderson's work is highly enjoyable.
"Moonrise Kingdom" is a good, old-fashioned children's movie with some dark undertones (loss of innocence) focused on modern-day Romeo and Juliet who found each other as a comfort from outside world. But where everybody finds literary characters completely acceptable, here it brings all kinds of of reactions with viewers that actually sound very philistine to me, as "originals" were not much older. If I remember correctly, Juliet was around 14 so there you go. These kids are lonely outsiders and whatever intimacy they share, its a dreamy world full of books, music and camp fire. And earrings made from fish hooks.
Watching this, I couldn't help but wondering has every child at least once thinking about running away from home - my little gang had extremely detailed plans about our collective escape, though f course it sounds so silly now to remember how one girl wanted to take her plastic bath tub with us in case of the rain (this gives you idea how small she must have been). Lots of grown-up actors here but they don't really matter and perhaps its a waste of big names since all the attention is on kids anyway. Again, I just love all the visual effects here and no matter how artificial, silly or cartoonish they might be, its beautiful, particularly that little isolated bay with one tent. Its a dream.