The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (Anderson, 2004): Prince Charles Cinema, 5.25pm
This 35mm presentation also screens on June 6th. (Full details here).
Time Out review:
'Despite
its typically painstaking attentions to elaborate set dressings and
assignations of quirk, The Life Aquatic meanders and stalls in its
journeys with ocean explorer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray),
a down-at-heel Cousteau-manqué pursuing a filmed revenge mission
against the jaguar shark who devoured his best friend. Suffused with
lush yet faded primary colours like a 30-year-old Kodak snap and spiced
with Henry Selick’s stop-motion animations and a starry (if often idle)
cast of supporting players, ‘The Life Aquatic’ is a beautifully
appointed but airless dollhouse-by-the-sea, populated by wistful
figurines in their matching little red caps and Team Zissou Adidas, and
scored to Seu Jorge’s deckside acoustic renditions of Bowie songs in
Portuguese. The movie pokes along in a manner at once listless and
affable, like a series of semi-improvised outtakes that didn’t quite
gel. And yet the director magically conjures emotional dividends in the
film’s invigorating last moments, which wordlessly celebrate an
underrated and truly Andersonian virtue: solidarity.'
Jessica Winte
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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