Film review: Moonrise Kingdom

This may just be the American master’s best film yet, says Hugh Lilly.

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1st September, 2012

Film review

It’s remarkable, really, that it has taken Wes Anderson until his seventh feature to find a place for Benjamin Britten’s The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, given its pomp and didacticism – but it’s wonderful that he has. Moonrise Kingdom, a sweetly comic tale that treats the flutters of first romantic love – and even nascent sexuality – with a wholesome sincerity rarely seen in American cinema, is the director’s first period piece. The story takes place in the summer of 1965 on a fictive island called New Penzance that lies just off the coast of New ...

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