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Is “The Phoenician Scheme” Wes Anderson's Most Emotional Film?
Despite an abundance of plot strands and characters, Anderson’s latest drills down into the father-daughter relationship depicted by its leads, Benicio del Toro and Mia Threapleton.
He also keeps his cool in heated dealings with a far-flung cast of associates whose backing he needs: with Prince Farouk (Riz Ahmed), he faces two Americans (Tom Hanks and Bryan Cranston) in a high-stakes basketball shoot-out; he takes a bullet for Marseille Bob (Mathieu Amalric) in the Frenchman’s Art Deco night club; he negotiates with the Newark Syndicate’s hipster representative, Marty (Jeffrey Wright), with the aid of deadly force. His staff includes, as a paid companion and tutor, an entomologist named Bjorn (played by Michael Cera, using one of the most outrageous accents this side of Walter Matthau), who travels with caged insects and is entrusted with a case containing all Zsa-zsa’s cash. When Zsa-zsa proudly raises the curtain on an enormous, electrified, mechanical diorama of his scheme’s many components, the display mimics a scene in Jean Renoir’s 1939 film, “The Rules of the Game,” in which a rich aristocrat unveils a room-size electrical music box.
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