If the superb and surreal work of director Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums, Fantastic Mr Fox) has so far passed you by, then the constellation of grown-up stars playing supporting roles in this tale of two lovestruck 12-year-olds should provide ample evidence of why he is held in such high regard.

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2. If the superb and surreal work of director Wes Anderson (The Royal
Tenenbaums, Fantastic Mr Fox) has so far passed you by, then the
constellation of grown-up stars playing supporting roles in this tale of two
lovestruck 12-year-olds should provide ample evidence of why he is held
in such high regard.
Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand and Tilda
Swinton are happy here to play second fiddle to juvenile leads
and, perhaps more pertinently, the beguiling vision of director Anderson
and his co-writer Roman Coppola.

3. Suzy (Kara Hayward) is a very troubled child. We know this partly
because she runs away from the home she shares with three
brothers and warring parents (Murray and McDormand), but mostly
because she has found her mother’s copy of a book titled Coping
With The Very Troubled Child.
Orphan Sam (Jared Gilman) is similarly plagued by adolescent
angst, loneliness and that sense of displacement writers have
explored to varying effect since J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher In The
Rye.

4. Sam is stuck in a scout camp when this story begins, persecuted by his
fellow troops and barely protected by a guileless Scout leader
(Norton).
The first of many triumphs is the ease with which we believe Sam and
Suzy have been conducting a first romance — entirely by letter —
since they met the previous summer. When they run away
together, pursued by Sam’s tormentors and Willis’s
grizzled, disappointed sheriff, we’re invited to run with them.
It is an impossible invitation to resist. The tentative treatment of
pubescent love and desire is masterful, enhanced by the
increasingly fantastical air with which Anderson imbues
proceedings and the idealised, isolated cove (the titular Moonrise
Kingdom) that is destination and embodiment of adolescent
dreams.

5. With social services (in the guise of an icy Swinton) and a storm
closing in, Suzy and Sam’s romance becomes the stage on
which the adults’ hopes and disappointments play out.
Visually striking and boasting beautifully measured central
performances, this tale of love, redemption and dissipating
innocence should delight viewers of every age.