Last night I saw “The Darjeeling Limited.” For a second time. I can explain….
Well, I went to a screening last week, after which there was a Q&A with Wes Anderson. [I actually Q’d. He A’d.] And I liked it enough to see it again with Jeanne on Tuesday.
I’ll just come right out and say the thing that movie reviewers make you skip to the last sentence for: It’s terrific.
In fact, that’s close to my last sentence. I’ll be happy to say more in the Comments below. But if you have any affection for Wes Anderson’s movies, this probably won’t disappoint. [Then again, if you have no affection for Wes Anderson’s movies, well, then by definition this won’t disappoint either.]
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[I will add this, though. There is a short, offered for free at iTunes, called “Hotel Chevalier,” which provides back-story for one of the characters. Not totally necessary, and stylistically very different, but you’ll be glad you watched it first.]
Fanny Roborat
9 comments
Boomer
October 18, 2007 at 5:32 pm
1Adam’s right! A great movie - and Owen Wilson never looked better.
Vinnie
October 18, 2007 at 5:55 pm
2Yo! Boomer, I wanted ta be first! So I guess I owe ya a bust to da chops, if I evah see ya. Ah, forgeddaboutit! Life is beautiful.
What a total beach experience dis Ibiza is! Beautiful dames, all tanned ta perfection - except for dem English broads, who are white as a ghost in da morning and lookin’ like lobsters by 3:00 in da afternoon. Dey even have beaches here that you don’t have ta wear no clothes! Dey got all kinda services here too - massages, tattoos, you name it - right on da beach! Yahoo! I may nevah go home! Guido is sorta pissed though, cause he’s gotta stay in character and he has ta wear dat black cassock, even on da beach! He gets even wit’ da Church by spending all his daytime on de naked beach. If der not wearin’ no swimsuits at all, den der not wearin’ heretical swimsuits. He’s got da Pope dere!
bunnymen
October 19, 2007 at 4:58 am
3What if I used to have affection for his movies but ultimately have come to find them pretentious and needlessly depressing?
Lauren
October 19, 2007 at 8:30 am
4Say more, say more!
I actually haven’t seen any Wes Anderson movies (!), but I’ve got the overwhelming sense that this will be kind of… I’m not sure, aching and lovely? (Maybe it’s the coding in the previews of “heart-warming and tender… comedy” which, interestingly enough, tends to imply not so much a family comedy but something more like Little Miss Sunshine or Stranger than Fiction, dark and bleak and sweet. But maybe I’m reading it too hard.)
But, would that be fair? I’ve got a lot of enthusiasm for seeing this, which is rare–we don’t tend to go out to movies.
Ann
October 19, 2007 at 10:39 am
5“Michael Clayton” was amazing.
What? This isn’t a movie-review site? Damn.
Dave von Ebers
October 19, 2007 at 11:44 am
6Aaaah, Just wait, Adam. When Li’l Adam (or whomever; we’re gender-neutral!) comes along, that’ll be it for first run movies …
By the way, we just watched “Word Play” on PBS’s independent lens. Funny, our current president is not featured … but our last one is, along with John Stewart. Hmmm.
nato
October 19, 2007 at 4:35 pm
7Darjeeling Limited, huh? Well, I’ve heard these new talkies they have nowadays are pretty spiffy. Maybe I’ll watch it this weekend.
Pope Benny 16
October 19, 2007 at 6:34 pm
8I hope Father Guido does not forget that he’s on a mission from God!
And speaking of weird sex (we were speaking of weird sex. No? Oh, okay. Sorry.), I had to can Msgr. Tommaso Stenico, even though he insisted that he was not gay. He said he was only pretending to be homosexual in order to research a suspected gay campaign against priests. Ja. Naturlich, but La 7’s hidden TV cameras don’t lie. Father Guido, please call me if the Monsignor shows up on the gay beach on Ibiza.
Last Sunday I offered a prayer at a ceremony marking the 90th anniversary of the last apparition of Our Lady of Fatima to three young children. If I were 50 years younger, I would have said “I’ll have some of what those kids are smoking”. Heinrich would have gotten a good laugh out of that. Oh, Heinrich…
All these miracles and apparitions the Church has glommed onto, really have proven to be a gold mine. People are so gullible, stupid and superstitious. In the old days, all you had to do was to say you saw the Mother of Christ and it was taken as the Gospel (A little joke there, ja?). Now days, you have to come up with an image of the Mother Mary on a corn chip, peeling paint, an ice formation or in dog barf for it to be called a miracle. It has to be certified and sanctified and I’ve got to way in on it’s authenticity. I miss the old days.
Pope Benny 16
October 20, 2007 at 9:46 am
9…”I’ve got to ‘weigh’ in on its authenticity”. The Papal spell checker is out; drunk on communion wine; driving around - popping wheelies in the Popemobile again.