Isle of Dogs [Exhibition & Screening]

Emine Oktay
Apr 2, 2018
1 min read

Today was the day I finally got to visit the Strand exhibition and see the screening of Wes Anderson's 'Isle of Dogs'. I'm really not a fan of Anderson, but this wasn't [in my opinion] a 'Wes Anderson' film - his stylistic direction wasn't overpowering and we no longer had to deal with the slightly-unbearable muted colour palette.

Above: The movie poster.

'Isle of Dogs' was bold and beautiful and it is now my second favourite animation ever [below 'Iron Giant' which held much more of an emotional rapport]. Something that particularly took hold of me was the production of the human faces, they were doll-like and translucent, almost glowing. I'd never seen anything like it. All in all, this filming had me sobbing against my will, it was utterly breath-taking and I'm gutted that I wasn't involved in the making of it.