A bus filled with celebrities poured onto the Cannes Film Festival’s purple carpet on Tuesday night for the premiere of director Wes Anderson’s new space-themed fable, “Asteroid City.”

As along with his earlier movies, Anderson’s solid is a veritable who’s who listing of Hollywood stars, together with Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Steve Carrell, Bryan Cranston, Adrien Brody and Margot Robbie. Notably absent is Bill Murray, who has been in virtually all of Anderson’s movies however missed this one resulting from being sick from COVID-19 throughout filming.

Anderson thanked his solid after a six-minute standing ovation following the movie’s world premiere on the plush Grand Theatre Lumiere. “Asteroid City” is the title of the fictional city within the southwestern United States the place the film, set within the Fifties, takes place. Famous for its meteor crater and observatory, the city is internet hosting a conference for younger scientists when a UFO disrupts the celebrations and upends attendees’ lives.

Schwartzman stars as Augie Steenbeck, a conflict photographer grieving the dying of his spouse, whose automobile breaks down within the city along with his three younger daughters and son, nicknamed “Brainiac,” in tow. His love curiosity is known actor Midge Campbell, performed by Johansson, on the town to attend the conference along with her daughter.

“Asteroid City” marks the third time the director, recognized for his distinctive visible type, has competed for the competition’s prime prize. His final entry was 2021’s “The French Dispatch.” Anderson teamed as much as write “Asteroid City” with Roman Coppola, with whom he has collaborated previously on films resembling Oscar-nominated “Moonrise Kingdom” and “Isle of Dogs.”

The film acquired combined evaluations, with critics praising its visible element and magnificence however deducting factors for being mild on emotional content material. Britain’s The Guardian newspaper gave it 4 out of 5 stars whereas Variety wrote it “looks smashing, but as a movie it’s for Anderson die-hards only, and maybe not even too many of them.”

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