Wes Anderson directs Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward and Edward Norton in this teen romance where two kids go on the lamb after a momentary chance encounter the summer before.

A church production of Noah’s Flood. A fantasy library. A stand-off in the woods. A dance on the beach. A defiant wedding. A steeple top cliffhanger. Wes’ loosest movie post-Rushmore, feels like French Nouvelle Vague movie… but y’know for kids. And, even if it is populated by orphans, loners in arrested development and lovers trapped in stale marriages, also his sweetest. It has no idea how to end but the journey to get there is worth running away for. A clashing soundtrack of Benjamin Britten and Hank Williams, a look of frayed formalism. This is a sleeve full of badges, a secret bay of romance and a throwaway masterwork. Glorious.

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Perfect Double Bill: Punch Drunk Love (2002)

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