The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 104m
Director: Wes Anderson
Cast: Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman, Anjelica Huston, Bill Murray, Amara Karan
Synopsis:
Three brothers meet in India to find their mother and rebuild their relationships. However, their past just keeps pulling them back into their old habits of mistrust and betrayal.
Review:
Another set of Anderson characters who appear to be obsessed by parenthood (in both directions) and form themselves into an unlikely unit while on some quixotic mission. There is the fascination with exoticism and vaguely surreal humour as before, but the basic scenario of spoilt westerners discovering themselves through shared suffering in India is rather too naïve to be persuasive and the title, the name of a train they take, a red herring. That said, it is as sophisticated a piece of light entertainment as one is likely to get from Hollywood these days, and the cast manage to remain engaging in spite of their self-indulgent behaviour. (The director rings the changes by having a prologue in the form of an accompanying short, with Schwartzman in a Paris hotel room making love to an unclothed Natalie Portman.)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 104m
Director: Wes Anderson
Cast: Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman, Anjelica Huston, Bill Murray, Amara Karan
Synopsis:
Three brothers meet in India to find their mother and rebuild their relationships. However, their past just keeps pulling them back into their old habits of mistrust and betrayal.
Review:
Another set of Anderson characters who appear to be obsessed by parenthood (in both directions) and form themselves into an unlikely unit while on some quixotic mission. There is the fascination with exoticism and vaguely surreal humour as before, but the basic scenario of spoilt westerners discovering themselves through shared suffering in India is rather too naïve to be persuasive and the title, the name of a train they take, a red herring. That said, it is as sophisticated a piece of light entertainment as one is likely to get from Hollywood these days, and the cast manage to remain engaging in spite of their self-indulgent behaviour. (The director rings the changes by having a prologue in the form of an accompanying short, with Schwartzman in a Paris hotel room making love to an unclothed Natalie Portman.)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 104m
Director: Wes Anderson
Cast: Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman, Anjelica Huston, Bill Murray, Amara Karan
Synopsis:
Three brothers meet in India to find their mother and rebuild their relationships. However, their past just keeps pulling them back into their old habits of mistrust and betrayal.
Review:
Another set of Anderson characters who appear to be obsessed by parenthood (in both directions) and form themselves into an unlikely unit while on some quixotic mission. There is the fascination with exoticism and vaguely surreal humour as before, but the basic scenario of spoilt westerners discovering themselves through shared suffering in India is rather too naïve to be persuasive and the title, the name of a train they take, a red herring. That said, it is as sophisticated a piece of light entertainment as one is likely to get from Hollywood these days, and the cast manage to remain engaging in spite of their self-indulgent behaviour. (The director rings the changes by having a prologue in the form of an accompanying short, with Schwartzman in a Paris hotel room making love to an unclothed Natalie Portman.)