After Asteroid City, director Wes Anderson returns to the movies with The Phoenician Plot, a film centered on a billionaire who, having survived yet another attempt to be taken out by his enemies, decides to leave his possessions to his only daughter (who has become a nun) among the ten he has had from his various wives and to complete the construction of an infrastructure complete with railroad tunnel, canal and dam in the fictional nation of Phoenicia.
Embellished with a stellar cast that includes such trusted collaborators of the director as Benicio del Toro, Bill Murray, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright and Scarlett Johansson, the film maintains the author’s signature style of hand-crafted sets and long shots that give the film the look of a work of art...containing authentic works of art!
“Never buy beautiful paintings. Only masterpieces.” So says Zsa-zsa Korda, the protagonist played by del Toro. The billionaire’s house is, in fact, embellished with works of art that the director of The Tenenbaums and The Aquatic Adventures of Steve Zissou borrowed from a variety of collections. “We’ve done a lot of films creating original works of art, but this time I thought ’let’s try to have the real works,’” Anderson says. "The Renoir comes from the Nahmad Collection (previously owned by Greta Garbo), the Magritte from the Pietzsch Collection. Other pieces come from the Hamburger Kunsthalle. A lot of surrealist art, photography, abstract expressionism, a wooden sculpture from the 14th century."
In short, a real treat to discover for art lovers who can see with their own eyes these masterpieces within the Texas director’s latest effort just brought to competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
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