The Darjeeling Limited

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(Rating: 3 by The Film Snob.)
(See our side-bar page “How Caryl & Al Rate Movies”)

(2007/USA. Directed by Wes Anderson.)
Peter, Jack, and Francis are on a journey across India. Director Wes Anderson is both their map maker and a man who *really* knows how to create dead-pan stand-up.

Suspend everything and let this film surround and astound you.

Wes Anderson’s film-making goes out on three thousand different limbs here, and almost all of them are solid enough to hold the entire cast as well as the entire art-house audience.

The film is full of subtle and nuance. The attention paid to creating The Darjeeling Limited train is in and of itself worth the price of the rental. The train’s compartments are a visual treasure trove, and the way the camera moves through them delivers a course in filmmaking.

And if we get to see Anjelica Huston as another mother of invention for her three pilgrimaging sons, wellllll, that’s just sweet gravy far beyond any Thanksgiving.

That’s exactly where we’re headed: to see the mother-turned-nun of these three brothers. That’s the Secret Agenda in Peter’s head, anyway, when he calls the three brothers together.

What he *tells* his two brothers, however, is that they are on a spiritual journey through India, to see the most spiritual and holy places on Earth.

What happens at the first of these spiritual train stops, however, is an example of the spiritual abyss into which all three boys have temporarily slip-slided away.

The first Holy Place the brothers visit is The Shrine of One Thousand Bulls. The taxi drops them but they never actually get inside.

They are side-tracked by the vendor stalls outside the Holy Place.

One brother falls victim to a shoe salesman’s display. Another is enticed to buy a Mace-like product. The third somehow comes to believe that buying a deadly poisonous snake is his best course of action.

Selfish and self-absorbed in the beginning, the brothers change unavoidably during one set piece in which they become heroically magnanimous because there is no time to do, or think, about anything else.

It’s a truly marvelous piece of sea change in this subtly comedic film.

Yes, the laughs are subtle, but they are life-affirming throughout, as Anderson takes us on a magical and visually stimulating pilgrimage across India.

The three brothers begin the journey disillusioned and disjointed but end it encouraged and enjoined.

They meet their mother after a long separation from her.. (Did we mention that their mother is Angelica Huston?!??) What happens when they do meet her cements their sibling relationship in ways they couldn’t imagine before that meeting.

All in all, “The Darjeeling Limited” is a loverly journey and a visually loverly exhibition. Do not miss renting it— and see it on the biggest darn screen you can find. It is delicious!

(1 hr 31. Rated R in the USA, for language. In English. With Wallace Wolodarsky as Brendan, the laminating man-behind-the-scenes; Owen Wilson as Francis; Hitesh Sindi as the electronics vendor at The Shrine of One Thousand Bulls; Sriharsh Sharma as the bus-stopping boy with handkerchief; Jason Schwartzman as Jack; Camilla Rutherford as Alice, Jack’s wife; Natalie Portman in a cameo appearance as Jack’s ex-girlfriend Bill Murray, in a tiny role as The Businessman; Trudy Matthy as the annoying German Lady Number One; Kishen Lal as the shoe vendor at The Shrine of One Thousand Bulls; Suraj Kumar as the thieving shoe-shine boy; Amara Karan as (the loverly) Rita; Anjelica Huston(!) as Patricia, the mommy-turned-nun on the three boys; Adrien Brody as Peter; Ramesh Bishnoi as the youngest brother in the tragic village family; Mukesh Bishnoi as the middle brother in the tragic village family; Dinesh Bishnoi as the oldest brother in the tragic village family; Mukhtiar Bhai as the pet-shop vendor at The Shrine of One Thousand Bulls, and; Waris Ahluwalia as The Chief Steward on The Darjeeling Limited.)