CANNES, France — In the film “Captain Fantastic,” Viggo Mortensen plays one of the all-time great movie dads. In a teepee in remote Washington State, he’s raising six children like a modern-day Swiss Family Robinson. The children, well-behaved and smart, are equally adept at skinning a deer and reading “The Brothers Karamazov” by the campfire. They pine after boning knives like most kid do iPhones.
For audiences at the Cannes Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival (where it first premiered before landing in France), “Captain Fantastic” has resonated as a movie for its time: a heartfelt and comic exploration about whether our hyper-digital, cacophonous lives have strayed from important things.
Actor Viggo Mortensen poses for portrait photographs for the film Captain Fantastic at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Wednesday, May 18, 2016. AP Photo/Joel Ryan
