The Darjeeling Limited ***
Wes Anderson, 2007
US
@ home on DVD
I thought this would benefit from a second time around, and it certainly did. What felt a bit herky-jerky in terms of plot twists the first time around seemed smoother and more obvious, so Anderson's style seems assured and controlled rather than oddly quirky.
What was also more apparent is that Anderson's flair for visual detail extends beyond simply art direction or intricate sets (the Tenenbaum's house, Steve Zissou's boat, the train here) to the larger physical setting. He obviously delights in the desert, hills, and countryside the movie rambles through, and makes excellent and specific use of the surroundings, certainly a mark of many great on-location films, but a failing that is often overlooked in a lot of just pretty good stuff by perhaps more literary-minded critics.
See also: IMDb | Metacritic | First viewing
Wes Anderson, 2007
US
@ home on DVD
I thought this would benefit from a second time around, and it certainly did. What felt a bit herky-jerky in terms of plot twists the first time around seemed smoother and more obvious, so Anderson's style seems assured and controlled rather than oddly quirky.
What was also more apparent is that Anderson's flair for visual detail extends beyond simply art direction or intricate sets (the Tenenbaum's house, Steve Zissou's boat, the train here) to the larger physical setting. He obviously delights in the desert, hills, and countryside the movie rambles through, and makes excellent and specific use of the surroundings, certainly a mark of many great on-location films, but a failing that is often overlooked in a lot of just pretty good stuff by perhaps more literary-minded critics.
See also: IMDb | Metacritic | First viewing
Labels: 2007, 3 Stars, US, Wes Anderson
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