Moonrise Kingdom

• Jared Gilman: Sam Shakausky
• Kara Hayward: Suzy Bishop
• Bob Balaban: narrator
• Bruce Willis: Captain Sharp
• Bill Murray: Mr. Bishop
• Frances McDormand: Mrs. Bishop
• Edward Norton: Scout Master Ward
• Jason Schwartzman: Cousin Ben
• Tilda Swinton: Youth Office
• Harvey Keitel: Commander Pierce

Moonrise Kingdom is an American comedy film directed by Wes Anderson from 2012.

Action

The film is set on the ( fictional) island of New Penzance Iceland off the coast of New England in 1965., Where the twelve -year-old Suzy Bishop lives with her parents and her three little brothers. I enjoy watching her with binoculars and so she also discovers that her mother is having an affair with the island police Captain Sharp.

The twelve- year-old Sam Shakausky creeps at night from a Boy Scout camp to meet up with his pen pal Suzy, whom he had met "Noah's Flood " by Benjamin Britten in the previous year to a school performance of the children's opera to meet and to flee with her. Suzy is betrayed by her little brother, and the very next day the two of Sam's Mitpfadfindern be tracked. Suzy hurt one of them with her left-handed scissors and they manage to escape again.

On a secluded bay, the " 3:25 -mile- inlet", they suggest to their camp and kiss here for the first time. The next morning, however, they are of a search party, consisting of Captain Sharp, Sams Mitpfadfindern and their leader Ward and Suzy's parents awakened. While Suzy returns to her parents, Sam is, who grew up as an orphan with foster parents who no longer want to take him back, guarded by Captain Sharp, to a representative of the Youth Welfare Office decides what shall be done with him, orphanage or electroshock therapy.

When the scouts from Sam's troops, in which he was the most unpopular Scout, know about it, they may reflect on helping him and his girlfriend and to enable the two to flee again. Together, they thus arrive at Ben 's cousin, a relative of a boy scout from the group, who is stationed at the camp on the neighboring island. He wants to help Suzy and Sam and the two married in further flight.

Your continued flight but is prevented by a gathering storm. All inhabitants of the island and also the search party of New Penzance Iceland see the church shelter. As Suzy and Sam are discovered there, both flee to the church tower and already want to jump down into the storm surge, as Captain Sharp she reached and the representative of the Youth Office can wrest consent by radio to be able to take Sam with him. At the same moment the church tower is struck by lightning, but survive all three.

At the end of the film you can see Suzy and Sam in the House of Bishops. Sam was also awarded the outfit of the island police and just paints a picture until it is interrupted by Walt and Laura Bishop, who now jointly call for the first time their children at the table. Sam leaves the house through the window and goes to the car by Captain Sharp, whom he accompanied on his patrol. Sam finally shows image of the bay, where he and Suzy have kissed for the first time and no longer exists after the storm surge. She had given them the name of " Moonrise Kingdom ".

Music

As a key source of inspiration for the film Wes Anderson served various compositions for choir and orchestra by Benjamin Britten. A framework is Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, listen to Suzy and her siblings at the beginning and end of the film. A central role at various points of the action takes the opera Noye 's Fludde ( Noah's Flood). Other compositions of Britten that make up parts of the soundtrack are songs from Friday Afternoons and the opera A Midsummer Night's Dream. The piece aviary ( The Aviary ) from the Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint- Saæns complements the selection of composed for children to classical music. Additional original compositions are written by French composer Alexandre Desplat; for the credits Desplat composed a version of his theme along the lines of Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra. In addition, three songs Country singer Hank Williams will be heard. A special role plays the song Le Temps de l' Amour by Françoise Hardy.

Soundtracks

Reviews

Although Moonrise Kingdom is clearly influenced by Wes Anderson typical quirky style on which to disturb many critics of his previous films, Moonrise Kingdom has been very well received. Hans -Georg Rodesk explained this in his review in The World from May 17, 2012 so that the bizarreness expressions no longer in the people, but in the narrative.

" To true love: unconditional and full earnest. Wes Anderson told in " Moonrise Kingdom ", the opening film in Cannes, of change -. , And the future of cinema "

" Sadness and humor are always very close to each other in Moonrise Kingdom, the reality of life and the absurdity of the film comedy, set in an exuberant abundance arranged with loving details that you can not get enough. "

" In summary, Moonrise Kingdom is a highlight for the eyes, where you can get enough difficult. Wes Anderson has once again done a complete masterpiece, in which the mixture of writer, equipment, music, and perfectly true figures occupied as otherwise rare. Friends of the oblique humor are sure you enjoy it, everyone else should just times might buy it. "

" A careful and detailed equipped, scoring with precisely matched color compositions mix of drama, comedy, children's film and love story. It brings together a bizarre personnel to tell about the light-heartedness of childhood, but also of dysfunctional families, with allusions to the American cultural history, laconic dialogues and witty observations make the movie a pleasure. "

" Weird characters, idiosyncratic images and whimsical first love - Anderson's first live-action film in five years does not even try to belong to the mainstream. Some may perceive as self-indulgent and too contrived. But who gets involved with this particular world, is experiencing a movie that was for me the most beautiful of 2012. "

Background

Moonrise Kingdom had its world premiere as the opening film of the 65th International Film Festival in Cannes, 2012. The film was distributed by Tobis film on May 24, 2012 in the German cinemas.

Trivia

The lighthouse, Suzy Bishop observed from which her ​​mother with Captain Sharp, was built for the filming in Jamestown, Rhode Iceland.

Iceland Conanicut Light, a former lighthouse building on Rhode Iceland, was used for the exterior shots of the House of Bishops.

The books that Suzy had stolen from the library, are purely fictitious. Wes Anderson invented the title and thought of the lines of text that reads Suzy during movie sequences. The covers were designed by six different artists. In April 2012, Anderson chose, these passages to animate and also to show in a promotional video for the film.

In order to better prepare them for their roles, let Wes Anderson of the twelve- year-old actor Hayward and Gilman write letters to each other, just as it make their characters in the film.