Sunday 31 December 2017

The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson, 2007)

Three brothers undertake a train journey across India to find themselves, as is the standard agenda for travellers to the subcontinent. Of course, with this being a Wes Anderson film, any such motives are to be taken lightly and likely to be derailed by all manner of random incidents. The performances of the cast, with Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman as the brothers and a host of cameos from other regular collaborators, are as tongue-in-cheek and facially expressive as the wilfully idiosyncratic plot requires and they make for an amiable entourage, albeit that this time the storyline is even more frivolous than usual and doesn't really go anywhere at all. Still, it's hard to dislike Anderson's output, even when it just meanders like this: the touch is light and the ambience is warm, and that alone is no easy thing to do.

6/10

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