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‘The Phoenician Scheme’ Review: Benicio Del Toro Shines In Wes Anderson’s Charming & Elaborate Family Heir & Espionage Drama [Cannes]
Filmmaker Wes Anderson’s “The Phoenician Scheme” opens with an exhilarating sequence that suggests his most ambitious film yet. It’s 1950, and Anatole “Zsa-zsa” Korda (Benicio del Toro), an enigmatic industrialist and one of the wealthiest men in Europe, is the subject of yet another assassination attempt. A bomb secretly planted on his aeroplane, in this daring aerial set piece escape, Korda manages to land the aircraft in a cornfield, surviving by the skin of his teeth (potentially not a surprise since this is his sixth plane crash after all, the film tells us). Continue reading ‘The Phoenician Scheme’ Review: Benicio Del Toro Shines In Wes Anderson’s Charming & Elaborate Family Heir & Espionage Drama [Cannes] at The Playlist.
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Filmmaker Wes Anderson’s “The Phoenician Scheme” opens with an exhilarating sequence that suggests his most ambitious film yet. It’s 1950, and Anatole “Zsa-zsa” Korda (Benicio del Toro), an enigmatic industrialist and one of the wealthiest men in Europe, is the subject of yet another assassination attempt. A bomb secretly planted on his aeroplane, in this daring aerial set piece escape, Korda manages to land the aircraft in a cornfield, surviving by the skin of his teeth (potentially not a surprise since this is his sixth plane crash after all, the film tells us).
