It is not a rom-com, slasher pic or dark thriller. It is a Wes Anderson movie, and at this stage in his career it seems unlikely he will ever make anything else.
“They do his films because it’s fun,” British critic Dorian Lynskey told AFP. “He’s not a difficult guy and yet has that total aesthetic that you normally associate with difficult directors.” He returns endlessly to his childhood: filming in his own high school in Houston for “Rushmore,” paying homage to youthful infatuations with explorer Jacques Cousteau and Roald Dahl .