The Darjeeling Limited
- Director: Wes Anderson
- United States, 2007
Anderson’s films are often about families or groups of individuals who form strong bonds. What’s becoming increasingly clear after seeing Darjeeling is that the director’s troupe of actors is imitating his art: almost all of the cast here seem to have appeared in multiple Anderson movies.
And Darjeeling is hardly the black sheep. It’s probably his most accessible effort yet and the humour and human story here are uncomplicated. Yet the audiences have been consistently small and the publicity was probably overshadowed by Owen Wilson’s personal troubles.
More’s the pity, because as three very different characters, Brody, Wilson and Schwartzmann are incredibly convincing siblings, travelling across India on the eponymous train and trying to make sense of each other.
