After the sour, teary family dramas of 2022, this year’s schedule presents some sweeter cinematic confectionery that suggests plain old fun at the movies might be back in fashion
Some of 2023’s early offerings, those dramas jostling for awards contention, fall into this bracket: The Whale, The Son, The Fabelmans, Empire of Light. All are tales of dysfunction and domestic betrayal .
But peer further into the schedules and the landscape looks different. The horizons widen and the colour palette perks up. It’s possible to imagine seeing three films in a row that don’t all leave you a sobbing wreck. And this is because as Covid concerns waned a little, lockdowns lifted and the end of the world began looking marginally less imminent, so studios gained the confidence to greenlight movies a bit more upbeat.
From left … Gabriel LaBelle, Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Keeley Karsten, Julia Butters and Sophia Kopera in The Fabelmans.as a youthful incarnation of the chocolatier, in an origin story about which little is known – something about how he first met the Oompa Loompas – but much is hoped.
The Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon has written original songs for the film, and Simon Rich – a very funny New Yorker humorist – has punched up the script. Even Wonka skeptics will have a hard time doubting this one; after all, everyone was dreading Paddington after ominous early posters and trailers, but King’s aesthetic – cheery, precisely composed, twee-embracing but emotionally authentic – was so winning the movie took nearly $300m and breathed new life into the UK family film industry.
One director to whom King has often doffed his sou’wester is Wes Anderson . Anderson will this summer also serve up a grand slice of Technicolor confectionery with Asteroid City. It is set during a Junior Stargazer convention held in a fictional American desert town, the premise – and madly stacked ensemble cast – make Moonrise Kingdom comparisons hard to avoid.
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