Wes Anderson’s latest absurdist comedy is about many things, part homage to Playhouse 90, part play-within-a play, but at the core of it are a bunch of travelers marooned in the desert western town of Asteroid City.
Of the many stuck, err visiting in a funk, are Scarlett Johansson’s movie star character Midge Campbell with her science-obsessed teenage daughter, and Jason Schwartzman’s Augie Steenback who hasn’t told is three young daughters that they’re mother has passed.
Amid it all, there’s a young adult stargazers science contest filled with various innovative experiments and scholarship money to boot for the participants which the military out in the desert is sponsoring.
This gaggle of folks — are they in some sort of purgatory? Or is the movie some sort of self-reflection on behalf of Anderson during Covid when he was developing the script?
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