Wes Anderson has one of the most instantly recognisable cinematic styles of any director working today — so much so that I could probably hold up two pastel-coloured pieces of card in front of you, hastily arrange some salt and pepper shakers to be symmetrical, and you’d know who I was talking about without anyone uttering a single word, like some weird kind of cinematographic charades.
His unmistakable aesthetic has inspired a legion of memes (”The colour grading on every Wes Anderson film is literally what having serotonin feels like”), countless lookbooks, Instagram pages devoted to real life settings that look like they’d be in his films (@accidentallywesanderson) and even bespoke train journeys (Belmond offered a themed train carriage experience in homage to the director in 2019).
