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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 |
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Producer:
Roman Coppola
Lydia Dean Pilcher
Scott Rudin |
Screenwriter:
Wes Anderson
Roman Coppola
Jason Schwartzman |
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.
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