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The Royal Tenenbaums 2002, USA, Colour, Drama / Comedy Second Film in Running time: 110 mins. our Desert Island Films Directed by Cast:, Angelica (Part 1) Huston, Gwyneth Paltrow, , , Owen & Season Luke Wilson,

rd InFifa members Samuel Paterson and Drew Boa (who both Tuesday 3 April 2019 voted it as one of their Desert Island Films) have the

following to say about the film:

Film review by Samuel Paterson : What I enjoyed about The Royal Tenenbaums was that, as with a lot of Wes Anderson's films, with there was a very distinctive use of certain camera techniques contributions from InFiFa like symmetry and cutting between different rooms in a building. I feel this makes the viewer feel they are peering members Samuel into the lives of the characters. I also enjoyed the retro

Paterson and costumes and soundtrack. I feel that, in a strange way, this Drew Boa, made the setting come across as not quite in the past but not notes compiled quite in the present. Finally, I enjoyed seeing the title family b y Mark gradually facing the demons of their past. I enjoyed Gene MacLennan Hackman's performance as the surly Royal and I especially (I nfifa ) felt that Luke Wilson's portrayal as the washed-up tennis star Richie showed great emotional depth’

Drew Boa : I really like Wes The following film review is from Roger Anderson's distinct brand of Ebert, 2002 : The Tenenbaums occupy a big house in a filmmaking; and is up there as one of my kind of dreamy New York. It has enough favourites by him. To someone who rooms for each to hide and nurture a knows nothing about the film or its personality incompatible with the others. director, I would describe it as; an Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman), the indie style, comedy/drama, character patriarch, left home abruptly some years driven tale, of an estranged family before and has been living in a hotel, on reunited under unexpected credit, ever since. There was never actually circumstances. What I'd say elevates a divorce. His wife Etheline (Anjelica it - and others by Wes Anderson - Huston) remains at home with their three above films from the same genre, is children, who were all child prodigies and artistic like framing/aesthetics, an have grown into adult neurotics. There's excellent soundtrack, but above all Chas (Ben Stiller), who was a financial whiz else, a stellar cast of well thought out as a kid; Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow), who characters - each with their own was adopted, and won a big prize for personal failings/foibles - Gene writing a school play, and Richie (Luke Hackman is particularly brilliant here. Wilson), once a tennis champion. Although the comedy is All three come with various partners, delivered in a somewhat subtle children and friends. The most memorable are Raleigh St. Clair (Bill Murray), a bearded manor, I find this film hilarious - in an intellectual who has been married to effortless kind of way. Typically of Margot for years but does not begin to Anderson's best offerings, it makes for know her; Eli Cash (), who easy, comfortable viewing and lived across the street, became like a presents a level of thoughtfulness, member of the family, and writes best- attention to detail, and high quality selling Westerns that get terrible reviews; which I really appreciate. It's a DVD Henry Sherman (Danny Glover), who was from my collection I've returned to a Etheline's accountant for 10 years until they number of times over the years, and suddenly realized they were in love, and such satellites as Pagoda (Kumar Pallana), now I'm really excited to get to see it Royal's faithful servant (who once in India on the big screen for the first time. tried to murder Royal and then rescued him from ... himself ...) and the bellboy Dusty (), who impersonates a doctor when Royal fakes a fatal illness. Trying to understand the way this flywheel comedy tugs at the heartstrings, I reflected that eccentricity often masks deep loneliness.

All the Tenenbaums are The movie's strategy of

doubling back on its own emotions islands entire of themselves. Consider that Margot has been a secret smoker works mostly through the dialogue. since she was 12. Why bother? Consider a sort of brilliant dinner-table Nobody else in the family cares, and conversation where Royal tells the when they discover her deception family he has cancer, they clearly don't they hardly notice. Her secrecy was believe him (or care), he says he wants part of her own strategy to stand to get to know them before he dies, outside the family, to have something the bitter Chas says he's not interested that was her own. in that, and Royal pulls out all the One of the pleasures of the stops by suggesting they visit their movie is the way it keeps us a little grandmother. Now watch how it uncertain about how we should be works. Chas and Richie haven't seen reacting. It's like a guy who seems to her since they were 6. Margot says be putting you on, and then suddenly piteously that she has never met her. reveals himself as sincere, so you're Royal responds not with sympathy but stranded out there with an with a slap at her adopted status: "She inappropriate smirk. You can see this wasn't your real grandmother." See quality on screen in a lot of Owen how his appeal turns on a dime into a Wilson's roles--in the half-kidding, cruel put-down? half-serious way he finds out just how Anderson's previous movies far he can push people. were "" (1996) and "Rushmore" (1998), both offbeat comedies, both about young people trying to outwit institutions. Anderson and the Wilson brothers met at the University of Texas, made their first film on a shoestring, have quickly developed careers, and share a special talent. (That Owen Wilson could co- write and star in this, and also star in the lugubrious "Behind Enemy Lines," is one of the year's curiosities.) Like the Farrelly brothers, but kinder and gentler, they follow a logical action to its outrageous conclusion.Consider, for example, what happens after Royal gets bounced out of his latest hotel and moves back home. His wife doesn't want him and Chas despises him (for stealing from his safety deposit box), so Royal stealthily mpves movesin with a hospital bed,

deposit box), so Royal stealthily moves in with a hospital bed,

intravenous tubes, private medical

care, and Seymour Cassel shaking his head over the prognosis. When this strategy is unmasked, he announces

he wants to get to know his grandkids better--wants to teach them to take chances. So he

instructs Chas' kids in shoplifting, "The Royal Tenenbaums" is at heart playing in traffic and throwing things profoundly silly, and loving. That's why it at taxicabs. made me think of Wodehouse. It stands in amazement as the Tenenbaums and their extended family unveil one strategy after another to get attention, carve out space, and find love. It doesn't mock their efforts, dysfunctional as they are, because it understands them--and sympathizes.

Roger Ebert 2002

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