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Movie Review: The Darjeeling Limited

Film Review By Michael Phillips, Tribune Movie Critic Three boys head off to see their mother, though only one of them knows where they're going, and why. "We're just trying to experience something," says the one played by Owen Wilson, his head bandaged owing to a recent motorcycle accident. They are privileged Anglos abroad, carrying an improbably fabulous collection of designer luggage with them aboard a train chugging across India. They have reunited, uneasily, a year after their father's death and their mother's disappearance. Spiritual journeys, even if they're comedies, don't really lend themselves to the extreme, anal-retentive formalism found in every frame of "The Darjeeling Limited." Director Wes Anderson's latest is arch in the extreme, a work of exacting eccentricity. It is also Anderson's most interesting film after "Rushmore," which starred Jason Schwartzman. Schwartzman co-wrote "Darjeeling" with his cousin Roman Coppola and Anderson, and co-stars with Wilson and Adrien Brody. Wilson's apparent recent suicide attempt has given the film a weird vibe of life-imitating-art, since Wilson, a longtime Anderson colleague, plays an amiable gadabout with reckless and self-annihilating tendencies, who wants desperately to get it together. The real-life Wilson headlines recede with each new week, happily, and Wilson reportedly ... read more Back to main movie page Showing Today at: Click here for other showings