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"Wes Anderson has only two previous features, Bottle Rocket (1996) and Rushmore (1999), but it's already clear that this 32-year-old writer-director possesses one of the freshest voices in American movies. His is a talent that Jean Renoir might have admired." –Dave Kehr, The New York Times
"The Royal Tenenbaums speaks in its own singular voice: at once tender and probing, mindful of New York and its special mixture of grit and glory, but confident enough to mold it into a big, faded magic playhouse, a limitless extension of the Tenenbaum family's private universe. I've never seen moments like these in any other movie." –Kent Jones, Film Comment
Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) and his wife Etheline (Anjelica Huston) had three children—Chas (Ben Stiller), Richie (Luke Wilson) and Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow)—and the nthey separated. Chas started buying real estate in his early teens and seemed to have an almost preternatural understanding of international finance. Margot was a playwright and received a Braverman Grant of $50,000 in the ninth grade. Richie was a junior champion tennis player and won the U.S. Nationals three years in a row. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure and disaster. The Royal Tenenbaums is the story of the family's sudden, unexpected reunion on recent winter.
"Wes Anderson has a very special kind of talent: he knows how to convey simple joys and interactions between people so well and with such richness. This kind of sensibility is rare in movies." –Martin Scorsese |
