Michael O’Sullivan in The Washington Post:
The Phoenician Scheme:
Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Mia Threapleton, Michael Cera, Riz Ahmed, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Mathieu Amalric, Richard Ayoade, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rupert Friend, Hope Davis.
Wes Anderson’s latest star-studded, clockwork-choreographed romp follows Zsa-zsa Korda (Del Toro), a European arms and aviation magnate who appoints his daughter, Liesl (Threapleton), a nun, as his sole heir, bypassing nine sons. Meanwhile, Korda must thwart business rivals, con men, terrorists and assassins as he embarks on the most important business venture of his lifetime, set in the modern independent state of Phoenicia, a fictional Middle Eastern country on the equally mythical Gulf of Methuselah. Two minutes into the whimsy-filled trailer, a banner reading “Happy New Year 1949” flashes — the date of the armistice that ended the first Arab-Israeli War. Could this be the director’s first political film?
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