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Wes Anderson Takes On the Oligarchs in ‘The Phoenician Scheme‘

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Wes Anderson's new film, The Phoenician Scheme , premiered here at the Cannes Film Festival on May 18 .

The film's closest relative in the Anderson curio cabinet is probably The Grand Budapest Hotel , a WWII -coded adventure that gallivants across a mountainous fantasy Europe at the dawn of fascism in the 1930s .

Benicio del Toro plays one of those ruthless opportunists: Anatole "Zsa-zsa" Korda .

Anderson ’s longtime fascination with aristocracy prevents him from making any truly harsh pronouncements about their cruelties and excesses.

The Phoenician Scheme does at least imagine a simpler way of being, one of harmless personal contentment.

Anderson 's film leaves us on that humanist note, a moment of hush and harmony.

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English

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