Three brothers go on a different kind of spiritual journey in Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited
THE DARJEELING LIMITED (Wes Anderson, 2007)
Nitehawk Cinema
136 Metropolitan Ave. between Berry St. & Wythe Ave.
Saturday, August 12, and Sunday, August 13, 11:45 am
Series runs through August 26
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Wes Anderson takes viewers on a wild ride through India aboard the Darjeeling Limited in this black comedy that opened the 2007 New York Film Festival. Francis (Owen Wilson), Peter (Adrien Brody), and Jack (cowriter Jason Schwartzman) are brothers who have not seen one another since their father’s funeral a year before, after which their mother disappeared. Having recently survived a terrible accident, Francis — looking ridiculous with his face and head wrapped in bandages — convinces them to go on a spiritual quest together to reestablish their relationship and help them better understand life. Peter and Jack very hesitantly decide to go along on what turns out to be a series of madcap adventures involving bathroom sex, bloody noses, jealousy, praying, cigarettes galore, running after trains, and savory snacks. Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore) injects his unique brand of humor on the action, ranging from the offbeat to the sensitive to the absurd as the brothers bond and battle in a search for themselves and what’s left of their family, set to a score adapted from the films of Satyajit Ray and Merchant-Ivory. The film, which features cameos by Bill Murray, Natalie Portman, Barbet Schroeder, and Anjelica Huston, is screening August 12 and 13 at 11:45 in the morning in Nitehawk’s “Back10” series, revisiting the films of 2007; several audience members at each show will receive a free copy of Matt Zoller Seitz’s The Wes Anderson Collection. (You can see a video of the chapter on The Darjeeling Limited here.) The festival continues through August 26 with such other decade-old fare as Danny Boyle’s Sunshine, Edgar Wright’s Hot Fuzz, Andrew Currie’s Fido, and Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood.