MOONRISE KINGDOM US comedy, directed by Wes Anderson, starring Bruce Willis, Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray, Edward Norton. 94 min. Rated 12A.

Wes Anderson makes films about small worlds in which big things happen: love, heartbreak, calamities, death. In his latest, the wondrous storybook tale “Moonrise Kingdom,” a girl and a boy, both 12, run off to a remote inlet on an island where most of the adults seem disappointed and more than a little sad. The girl and the boy are very serious — about love, their plans, books, life itself — and often act older than their age. She wears bright blue eyeliner; he puffs on a corncob pipe. You wonder what their hurry is, given that here adulthood, with its quarrels, regrets and anguished pillow talk, can feel as dangerous as the storm that’s hurtling toward the island, ready to blow it all down. The two young romantics in “Moonrise Kingdom,” which opened the 65th Cannes Film Festival, are gifted and, according to grown-ups who are supposed to know about such things, problem children. — Manohla Dargis, The New York Times