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13 Nov 19
Stumbling into this momentous event in the history of space exploration is Augie Steenbeck, a newly widowed father played by Anderson fave Jason Schwartzman, and his children, whose car breaks down en route to visiting his father-in-law, played by Tom Hanks in his Anderson- verse debut.
They serve as a double layering of Anderson's well-trodden "bad dads" theme, with Augie yet to inform his children that their mother has died. And in the director's typical zero-degree black humour, they bury a Tupperware containing her ashes in a hole in the desert floor.
Also stumbling into Asteroid City is Hollywood star Midge Campbell, marking the first time Scarlett Johansson's face has appeared in an Anderson film, following her vocal turn as Nutmeg in his stop-motion feature Isle Of Dogs. Augie and Midge bond as mutual outsiders, giving an external eye to the extra-terrestrial phenomena as they ponder matters of life, the universe and everything.
Their conversations are staged between the windows of their respective lodgings, immaculately framed in the style of iconic 1950s painters like Alex Colville and Edward Hopper.
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