Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012.
The film was selected as the opening film of the 2012 Cannes festival and competed for the Palme d’Or. It is a coming-of-age story set on a fictional New England island in 1965, following two young people who run away together while adults search for them. Anderson co-wrote the screenplay with Roman Coppola.
Moonrise Kingdom opened theatrically in the United States in May 2012 after its Cannes premiere. Its ensemble includes Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, and Tilda Swinton. The film became one of Anderson’s strongest commercial successes at that point.
The premiere year is sometimes confused with the story’s setting year. The characters live in 1965, but the film itself was released decades later, with its first major festival presentation occurring in 2012.