The Cannes Film Festival begins by May 25 this year and the festival organizers have come out with the opening film. It will be none other than Moonrise Kingdom, the latest from
Wes Anderson, the director of The Royal Tennenbaums and Fantastic Mr Fox.
The multi-starrer has Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Ed Norton, Jason Schwartzmann, Tilda Swinton and Harvey Keitel in key roles.Set on an island off the coast of New England in the 1960s, Moonrise Kingdom is about a young boy and girl, who fall in love and run away together.
Various factions of the town mobilize to search for them and the town is turned upside down!
Wes Anderson is known for his quirky, idiosyncratic films that have created a cult following for the director.