***** In the not-so-distant future, all dogs are exiled from Japan to the 'trash island' just off the coast. Desperate to be reunited with his beloved pet, a young boy, Atari, sets out to find his dog among the many canines abandoned there. Wes Anderson has a style of film making that can only be categorised as 'Wes Anderson'. A quirky director with an eye for the symmetrical, bold colour palettes and finer details which add up to make a wonderfully realised whole, he has crafted a back catalogue of films that can only be described as polarising: whilst some revel in the whimsical charm, others find them frustrating and irritating. Into this mix comes Isle of Dogs , a wholly original tale of a young boy in search of his pet, Spots. Utilising all the idiosyncratic Anderson tropes, it marries a rag-tag group of mutts to a child with an aeroplane bolt in his skull in a perilous adventure across a littered landscape - and it's brilliant. Emotive, t
Film reviews by Eleanor. Writer, blogger, cat lover.