‘Your barista’s favourite director’ is back with Isle of Dogs – but with his trademark twee ubiquitous in film, TV and fashion, he never really went awayThe trailer for new movie Birthmarked is a strange thing, both quirky yet teeth-grindingly banal.
Over a jingly-jangly soundtrack, Matthew Goode and Toni Collette play a studiously eccentric American couple who choose to bring up their children in studiously eccentric ways.
Cue tears, cue laughter, cue a whole Pinterest board full of quirky references.
It wants to be The Royal Tenenbaums; it’s more The Durrells, set to the Lumineers.There is, of course, one man to blame for all this: Wes Anderson.
Over two decades, the meticulous Rushmore auteur has helped spawn an entire sub-genre of American cinema, a landfill site chocca with handlebar moustaches, melancholia and tasteful alt-folk music.
He has had a boggling influence over the rest of pop culture,
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