Run time: 105 mins

Wes Anderson marks his return to the big screen with yet another candy-coloured confection.

Unfolding in a fictional 50’s town said to be located somewhere on the fringes of Arizona, California and Nevada, Asteroid City focuses on Jason Schwartzman’s widowed war photographer, Augie Steenbeck. As the proceedings of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention are spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events, Augie, the townsfolk and a host of government officials try to make sense of what they have just witnessed.

Expect everything you’ve come to know and love about Wes Anderson; the revelling in the bizarre,  the postmodernist artistic direction, the deadpan performances, the symmetry…so much symmetry. A dizzying ensemble cast (Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Steve Carrell, Margot Robbie among many other worthies) come and go, dropping in and doing their bit.

It all makes for a wonderfully fun, stunningly visual tale about wonder, grief and the ways we try to process it; through anger, through acting, through magical thinking. But it’s also a movie about space, both outer and inner, and how and why artists keep trying to explore it.