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7 March
Fathers in the films of Wes Anderson (as seen) :— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 8, 2018
Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman), in The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) is a real father, but only pretends that he has now re-engaged with his family so that he can start behaving like one...
And what of Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) ? ->
He may, in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), really be Ned's (Owen Wilson's) father, but knew of and yet had never sought him out - Steve only has a very little time to discern his true feelings about being a father— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 8, 2018
In The Darjeeling Limited (2007), three brothers (one of them played by Wilson (Francis)) are on a train in India, because of their father, and the manner of his life (and death)— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 8, 2018
In all of this, revolving ideas of fatherhood and who / what a father is - on into Grand Budapest...
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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)
