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The Life Aquatic | STANDARD Ticket | 2024
The Life Aquatic | STANDARD Ticket | 2024
Saturday June 29th | Ticket includes | a welcome glass of sparkling wine*, two course set menu themed to the movie country of origin, FRENCH, and the movie in a fabulous location.
Murray is the star of Wes Anderson's “The Life Aquatic” and he hardly needs to crack an expression playing Steve Zissou, the autocratic oceanographer and has-been star of his own self-produced marine documentaries. Zissou is a weird mixture of Jacques Cousteau, Captain Kirk and Captain Bligh, but mainly the French legend Cousteau, to whose calmly paced and lugubriously narrated television shows the movie is a lovingly detailed tribute.
Like the dysfunctional Tenenbaums, the Zissou crew is family, a family that doesn't see anyone from the outside world and has developed its own inbred habits and mannerisms. The family's kit, craft and uniform are quaintly marooned in the 1960s of Cousteau, while Zissou's hated enemy and rival explorer Alistair Hennessey (Jeff Goldblum) luxuriates in state-of-the-art gadgetry. Willem Dafoe plays Zissou's trusty crewmember Klaus; Anjelica Huston is his semi-estranged wife Eleanor, "the brains behind Team Zissou"; and Owen Wilson is aboard as Ned, a huge fan of Zissou and also his illegitimate son.
The captain, with his old-fashioned ways, is pretty much washed up in the modern undersea world. But just as his career is about to go under, Zissou outrages naturalists everywhere with a quixotic new project. Team Zissou's much-loved cinematographer Esteban (Seymour Cassel) was eaten by a rare jaguar shark. So Team Zissou is going to track down this shark - and kill it. "For revenge," as Zissou crisply announces to his astonished public. This exciting mission is to be chronicled by a frightfully British magazine writer Jane Winslett-Richardson (Cate Blanchett), on whom Zissou naturally develops a monumental crush.
This is one of the most thoroughly and elaborately designed movies I have ever seen - the look and feel of The Life Aquatic, drenched in knowing eccentricity, can only be Anderson's own vision. He really does create an all-encompassing world of wackiness. The design of Zissou's rickety-rackety ship, the Belafonte, is a work of art in its own right. The captain takes us on a guided tour, and the ship's various cabins and state-rooms are laid open to us in cross-section. If The Life Aquatic were a prog-rock concept album (and in a way it is), then the map of this beautiful and strange ship would open out on a double-gatefold.
Like all of Anderson’s best films, “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou” (the full title) it works simultaneously on multiple levels, and derives its sneaky power from the ways in which those levels intersect
*The drink varies depending on the country and we are not always able to source sparkling wines from some regions. Any drink from the bar may be supplemented.
The set menu is sourced and cooked fresh on site and we are unable to offer alternative menus for food allergies & intollerances.
Saturday June 29th | Ticket includes | a welcome glass of sparkling wine*, two course set menu themed to the movie country of origin, FRENCH, and the movie in a fabulous location.
Murray is the star of Wes Anderson's “The Life Aquatic” and he hardly needs to crack an expression playing Steve Zissou, the autocratic oceanographer and has-been star of his own self-produced marine documentaries. Zissou is a weird mixture of Jacques Cousteau, Captain Kirk and Captain Bligh, but mainly the French legend Cousteau, to whose calmly paced and lugubriously narrated television shows the movie is a lovingly detailed tribute.
Like the dysfunctional Tenenbaums, the Zissou crew is family, a family that doesn't see anyone from the outside world and has developed its own inbred habits and mannerisms. The family's kit, craft and uniform are quaintly marooned in the 1960s of Cousteau, while Zissou's hated enemy and rival explorer Alistair Hennessey (Jeff Goldblum) luxuriates in state-of-the-art gadgetry. Willem Dafoe plays Zissou's trusty crewmember Klaus; Anjelica Huston is his semi-estranged wife Eleanor, "the brains behind Team Zissou"; and Owen Wilson is aboard as Ned, a huge fan of Zissou and also his illegitimate son.
The captain, with his old-fashioned ways, is pretty much washed up in the modern undersea world. But just as his career is about to go under, Zissou outrages naturalists everywhere with a quixotic new project. Team Zissou's much-loved cinematographer Esteban (Seymour Cassel) was eaten by a rare jaguar shark. So Team Zissou is going to track down this shark - and kill it. "For revenge," as Zissou crisply announces to his astonished public. This exciting mission is to be chronicled by a frightfully British magazine writer Jane Winslett-Richardson (Cate Blanchett), on whom Zissou naturally develops a monumental crush.
This is one of the most thoroughly and elaborately designed movies I have ever seen - the look and feel of The Life Aquatic, drenched in knowing eccentricity, can only be Anderson's own vision. He really does create an all-encompassing world of wackiness. The design of Zissou's rickety-rackety ship, the Belafonte, is a work of art in its own right. The captain takes us on a guided tour, and the ship's various cabins and state-rooms are laid open to us in cross-section. If The Life Aquatic were a prog-rock concept album (and in a way it is), then the map of this beautiful and strange ship would open out on a double-gatefold.
Like all of Anderson’s best films, “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou” (the full title) it works simultaneously on multiple levels, and derives its sneaky power from the ways in which those levels intersect
*The drink varies depending on the country and we are not always able to source sparkling wines from some regions. Any drink from the bar may be supplemented.
The set menu is sourced and cooked fresh on site and we are unable to offer alternative menus for food allergies & intollerances.