Wes Anderson «s «Moonrise Kingdom» seems like an odd choice to open the 65th Cannes Film Festival, with its deadpan Americanism, retro - set timeline and movie - star cast; at the same time, Anderson is clearly influenced by the New Wave, both cinematically and personally, he's a distinctive authorial voice as a director (which is the essence of
auteur theory) and while his films are defined by near - silent moments of comedy and human frailty, there's also something mournful and wounded
about them.