Book - Wes Anderson / The Total - EPA Edition

Obsession with detail and symmetry, chromatic audacity, vintage aesthetics: Texan filmmaker Wes Anderson imposes an inimitable style and signature, the scope of which goes beyond the strictly cinematographic framework. Inspiring the greatest creators of today, his characteristic universe embraces reality in a poetic and playful way by staging a gallery of wacky characters, a persistent melancholy, and catchy melodies. Watching a Wes Anderson film means tracking down the visible and the invisible, listing the more or less hidden references and winks that this great aesthete loves. A real treasure hunt, the keys to which this book aims to provide you.Synopsis, genesis, distribution, critical and public reception: all the films, short and feature films deciphered. A wealth of iconography: posters, set photographs, preparatory material... Portraits and interviews with Wes Anderson's close collaborators to go further. Focuses to discover the recurring motifs of the work, the formal obsessions and the themes of the director.Unpublished revelations: filming secrets and anecdotes about the creative process...A detailed index to quickly find the works and people cited.