Wes Anderson’s entire deal has become a topic of conversation among film fans. When you watch his films on a superficial level, it feels like a schtick but The Phoenician Scheme shows how brilliantly he can weave his aesthetic with a captivating story.
Some of Anderson’s work is so emotionally charged under the surface that I find myself broken by the end (but a good kind of broken). With The Phoenician Scheme, I was more interested in the humor that Benicio del Toro brought to the role of Zsa-Zsa, a very rich and important man who is actively being hunted by someone and he’s not quite sure who.
