Wes Anderson: Beginnings

The screening of Asteroid City is a good opportunity to revisit to the beginning of Wes Anderson's career, before he became Wes Anderson. All the characteristics of Anderson's cinema - the visual perfection, the preoccupation with the coming-of-age crisis in the bosom of the family, the absence of a successful father figure - are already present in his first four films. From the beginning, Anderson offers his own cinematic universe, which gets more and more refined as his career developed. His first films lack the colorful mannerism aesthetics, offering a sense of authenticity, well in the Andersonian way: self-aware, ironic innocence, games with form, but one in the center of which - perhaps - real emotion still pulsates. In an era of superheroes, where the personal cinema is fighting for its life, Anderson has done quite well, and his films - new and old - are always a unique celebration to indulge in.