+ Best Dramedy of the Year
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| Three Westerners explore colorful India in Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited |
QUICK REVIEW:
Three American brothers, who have recently lost their father, gang up as older brother Francis (Owen Wilson (She's Funny That Way (2014))) wants them to go on a spiritual bonding journey through India to their mother, a nun in the Himalayas, who doesn't want to see them.
It is too easy to do as some and write Darjeeling off as just a piece of quirky indie-fashionable exotic-East-hipster-pornography, and the film is admittedly also that. The three brothers are excessively eccentric, rich and cool, - but also entertaining and well-played by Wilson, Adrian Brody (Midnight in Paris (2011)) and Jason Schwartzman (The Overnight (2015)). Anjelica Huston (Addams Family Values (1993)) has a good time and a good part as their mother, while Bill Murray (Groundhog Day (1993)) has a teeny, tiny part. And Natalie Portman (Léon (1994)) and Schwartzman in Darjeeling have to be the movie couple of the year!
The story, by master co-writer-director Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)), Roman Coppola (Moonrise Kingdom (2012)) and Schwartzman, is rich, very unpredictable and ripe with beautiful moments, wherein the film's superior visuals really get to work their magic. Once again excellent work by cinematographer Robert D. Yeoman (The Squid and the Whale (2005)).
Darjeeling Limited is a film to treasure! Long live post-modernism!
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Watch the inspiring, resplendent trailer for the film here
Cost: 17.5 mil. $
Box office: 35 mil. $
= Minor flop
[Much of the film was shot on location in Rajasthan, India and in New York. The film is dedicated to great Indian director Satyajit Ray. It won the Little Gold Lion in Venice, garnered good reviews and made 11.9 mil. $ (34 % of its total gross) in North America.]
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