Wes Anderson Week: The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
My thoughts on the Tenenbaums: read the entire article at filmosophy:
“If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.” - Ram Dass
LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES
by Karina Wolf
When Royal Tenenbaum is found out by his family – when they discover (not a spoiler) that in order to live with them, he’s only pretending to have stomach cancer (while eating cheeseburgers and scoffing Tic Tacs from medicine bottles) – he accepts his eviction and retreats to the 375th Street Y. There’s something about this hyperbolically placed men’s association which locates the exact artistic terrain of The Royal Tenenbaums.
ah! the best description i’ve ever seen of the way watching this movie makes me feel: “Each thing…was infinite things, since I distinctly saw it from every angle of the universe.”
