Last Movie You Watched

[DavidW]

Woman of the Hour: A serial killer stalks a woman by appearing on a dating show.

Murder on the Orient Express: Albert Finney's version has an all-star cast and is the best adaptation of this classic, even eclipsing the David Suchet version.

[pjme]

[AnotherSpin]

What do you think about?

[Florestan]

Typically crazy 1970s French comedy --- and a nice pretext for Catherine Deneuve to show off her legs. 

[pjme]

What do you think about?

Die-hard Wes Anderson fans will probably cherish The Phoenician Scheme. His films have become a brand, beloved precisely because they are so very similar: the same symmetrical design, hyper-structured scripts, bone-dry performances, tiny guest roles and lots of "strange" humor.
The film got mostly bad (to very bad) reviews in the(Belgo-Dutch) press: Anderson needs a fresh start, this is a boring film...
Yet I do like his extremes, the visual abundance, the fantasy, the meticulous (often nostalgia inspired)  design.
Plenty of good music too- even Stravinskys Apollon musagète turns up.

I suppose that I was hoping for some sort of goofy criticism of Trump/Musk/Vance-like figures or -eventually- pumping some real life in his characters....but no, The Phoenician scheme remains too distant...lifeless. 

[AnotherSpin]

Die-hard Wes Anderson fans will probably cherish The Phoenician Scheme. His films have become a brand, beloved precisely because they are so very similar: the same symmetrical design, hyper-structured scripts, bone-dry performances, tiny guest roles and lots of "strange" humor.
The film got mostly bad (to very bad) reviews in the(Belgo-Dutch) press: Anderson needs a fresh start, this is a boring film...
Yet I do like his extremes, the visual abundance, the fantasy, the meticulous (often nostalgia inspired)  design.
Plenty of good music too- even Stravinskys Apollon musagète turns up.

I suppose that I was hoping for some sort of goofy criticism of Trump/Musk/Vance-like figures or -eventually- pumping some real life in his characters....but no, The Phoenician scheme remains too distant...lifeless.

Thank you, that's close to how I saw the film myself. Visually, it's quite fascinating; some of the shots you could easily look at for ages, like images with a life of their own. As a child, I rather enjoyed something similar, poring over intricate, incomprehensible diagrams or maps of faraway lands in heavy old atlases.

As for what was actually going on... well, I can't say I entirely made sense of it, to be honest.