Moonrise — Kingdom

The two met a year earlier at a church performance of Noye's Fludde . Bound by their shared status as "troubled" outcasts—Sam for his orphan background and

Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom (2012) is often cited as the pinnacle of the director’s "auteur" style—a film where his fastidious attention to detail, symmetrical compositions, and dry wit converge to tell a deeply earnest story of young love. Set in the summer of 1965 on the fictional New England island of New Penzance, the film follows Sam Shakusky, an orphaned Khaki Scout, and Suzy Bishop, a moody bibliophile, as they flee their lives to find a secret cove. Moonrise Kingdom

It endures because it refuses to mock its protagonists. Sam and Suzy are weird. They are precocious in ways that are occasionally annoying. But Anderson never sneers at them. He photographs their first kiss—a clumsy, sudden peck on the beach in the rain—as reverently as a Renaissance painting of the Annunciation. The two met a year earlier at a