Isle of Dogs
Film details
| Film Title | Isle of Dogs |
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| Genre | |
| Length | 101mins |
| Year | 2018 |
| Country | Germany, United States of America |
| Director | Wes Anderson |
| Actors | Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Bob Balaban, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Kunichi Nomura, Fisher Stevens, Akira Takayama, Greta Gerwig, Ken Watanabe, Frances McDormand, Nijiro Murakami, Harvey Keitel, Liev Schreiber |
| Language | English, Japanese |
| Showings |
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.
Another utterly distinctive, formally brilliant exercise in savant innocence from Anderson, somewhere between arch naivety and inspired sophistication.
★★★★
If you’re playing Wes Anderson bingo, you can tick off ‘droll whimsy’, ‘visual pizzazz’ and ‘Bill Murray’. Yet, thanks to the Far East setting and a rollicking story, this is a fun and fresh-feeling experience.
★★★★
Wes Anderson’s stop-motion canine fairy tale-with a timely political subtext-is a triumph of pure imagination. Expect to wag your metaphorical tail in delight,
★★★★
