The Darjeeling Limited
Comedy September 30th, 2007
I hate to get serious for a moment, but I went to see The Darjeeling Limited and there is really nothing funny to say about it so I have to get serious. I’m a big fan of Wes Anderson, but I don’t know how to place this movie in my Wes Anderson cosmology. I’m not the only one, check out A.O. Scott’s sort of endorsement:
“This shaggy-dog road trip, in which three semi-estranged brothers travel by rail across India, is unstintingly fussy, vain and self-regarding. But it is also a treasure: an odd, flawed, but nonetheless beautifully handmade object as apt to win affection as to provoke annoyance. You might say that it has sentimental value.”
Here are how I rank Wes Anderson’s movies:
Rushmore
Life Aquatic
The Royal Tennenbaums
The Darjeeling Limited
Bottle Rocket
(Image from http://flickr.com/photos/beatpiknik/1339995645/)
October 11th, 2007 at 11:10 am
Anything ranked below Life Aquatic must be, what’s the word I’m looking for…
I don’t know who was responsible for it but I thought it was Murray’s doing. Following Lost in Translation, which I identified with because of my many sleepless nights in Japan, he has discovered a new vein of acting: understatement to the point of nothingness. I’d planed to see this movie but now, I don’t think so.
October 21st, 2007 at 5:43 pm
Louis Vuitton has a Darjeeling Limited suitcase line. I see them piled in the window at the store on 57th Street every time I pass on the M31. I wonder if they are selling?