The Phoenician Scheme
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“I suppose I'm moved by this absurd performance”
Overview
After surviving his sixth plane crash, it is clear to international maverick businessman Zsa-zsa Korda (Benicio del Toro) that someone wants him dead. Estranging himself from his nine sons, Korda instead choses to appoint his fortunes to his daughter Liesl (Mia Threapleton), a nun, who he hasn't seen in years. Hampered by the disruptive efforts of international bureaucrats, Zsa-zsa takes Liesl on a globetrotting journey to meet with tycoons, titans, barons and other such capitalists to invest in infrastructural projects in the country of Phoenicia that they'll profit on for the next 150 years. Liesl’s one condition of tagging along: that her father let loose a certain long-kept secret.
“An absolute gas; one of his funniest, most madcap adventures yet”
“It’s remarkable how Michael Cera walks away with the film... one of the best fits of performer and director maybe ever”
“Tender, witty, wondrous... a complete delight”
“Proves that the director is at his most fun when he bends his rules”
Why See This Film
Hot on the tail of Asteroid City and his collection of Roald Dahl adaptations, Wes Anderson returns to his Grand Budapest Hotel mode of whimsical charm, ensemble comedy and rollicking mid-century adventure with an edge of quiet melancholy. Featuring very special turn ins from Benicio del Toro (a rare leading role for one of the best), a revelatory Michael Cera and a breakout surprise from Mia Threapleton, The Phoenician Scheme is one of our new favourites. It’s easy to dismiss the director's efforts as ‘another Wes Anderson film’, but that would ignore everything that distinguishes his works, losing sight of one of the most inventive and creative cumulative projects of today’s cinema – these are not dime a dozen but rare treats.
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