THE DARJEELING LIMITED (2007) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Wes Anderson
Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman,
Anjelica Huston, Amara Karan, Irfan Khan,
Barbet Schroeder, Camilla Rutherford, Bill Murray
Wes Anderson's movies continue to explore the dynamics of family relationships. This one zeroes in on three brothers on a half-baked spiritual journey by train through India. We don't know much about them, really. Jack (Jason Schwartzman) is breaking up with a girlfriend nobody seems to like. (See "Hotel Chevalier".) Peter (Adrien Brody) is about to become a father. Francis (Owen Wilson) is still wearing the bandages from a head-first suicide attempt. So they've all got individual issues, but what the film really ends up being about is how they respond to each other, as decades of shared history, old grudges, and imagined slights and resentments break to the surface. You know how brothers and sisters can bait each other and love each other and crack each other up and drive each other crazy, all at the same time? It's like that. We're all on this trip together, after all. But sometimes you've got to let go of the baggage, if you want to catch the train.
