Fall Movie Preview 2007

The Darjeeling Limited
Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, Adrien Brody, Anjelica Huston
OPENING SEPTEMBER 29th

Confession: I love this movie. It's the most assured, mature work yet from director Wes Anderson (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic), who wrote the script with friends Roman Coppola and Jason Schwartzman. On the surface, the film is a lark -- a spiritual odyssey in India undertaken by three wealthy brothers: Francis (Owen Wilson), Peter (Adrien Brody) and Jack (Jason Schwartzman). Their purpose is to ride a train through India to find their mother (Anjelica Huston), who is working with nuns at the foot of the Himalayas. But they're dealing with something more intense: the death of their father and the forces that keep driving them apart as a family. Beautifully shot by Robert D. Yeoman, the film breezes by. You laugh, sometimes to keep from crying. Wilson and Schwartzman are Anderson veterans -- they know how to nail every nuance in his work. But as the film moves deeper into melancholy and pain, it's Brody who is the revelation. Touched by tragedy, his character doesn't talk but asks "to hold this in for a while." The Darjeeling Limited is more than one of the best movies of the year. It's a movie you want to hold in.