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The Darjeeling Limited (2007)

Director:
Wes Anderson
COUNTRY
USA
GENRE
Comedy/Drama
NORWEGIAN TITLE
The Darjeeling Limited
RUNNING TIME
91 minutes
Producer:
Roman Coppola
Lydia Dean Pilcher
Scott Rudin
Screenwriter:
Wes Anderson
Roman Coppola
Jason Schwartzman


Cast includes:

CHARACTER ACTOR/ACTRESS RATING
Francis Whitman Owen Wilson ½
Peter Whitman Adrien Brody ½
Jack Whitman Jason Schwartzman
Rita Amara Karan
The Father Irfan Khan
The Mechanic Barbet Schroeder
The Businessman Bill Murray
Sister Patricia Whitman Anjelica Huston

 

Review

Indian geography and culture is the basis for the adventures of the three Whitman brothers in The Darjeeling Limited, Wes Anderson's most profound and serious effort to date. The more fantastical elements of Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou have been substituted with whiffs of sensitivity. That doesn't mean Anderson isn't still primarily concerned with awkward family relations, overworked spirituality and atypical ways of living. The Darjeeling Limited is loaded with situational comedy and segments that are amusing rather than funny - a pleasant style that suits Anderson's offhand stories. And he mixes the sweet with the sour very deftly in the film's best segment in which our three protagonists find themselves in a rural Indian village struck with grief. The Darjeeling Limited is enjoyable and uplifting, but as with The Royal Tenenbaums, it is the standoffishness and ultimate void in the thematics that withholds it from greatness.

Copyright © 25.1.2008 Fredrik Gunerius Fevang

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