Venice Flashback: Wes Anderson Rolled Onto the Lido With ‘Darjeeling Restricted’

When Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Restricted — by which Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, and Jason Schwartzman play brothers touring by practice throughout India — debuted at Venice in 2007, the evaluations, although optimistic, had been choosy. THR complained, “The movie is overly happy with itself, and the characters are means too self-absorbed.”

At a pageant press convention, Anderson insisted on the film’s sincerity: “One among our guidelines after we had been scripting this film was we felt we must always attempt to make it as private because it may very well be. After we had an issue with the story, we’d say, ‘Properly, what’s occurred to you?’ … We tried to fill the film with as a lot of that as we might.”

Shrugging off the criticism, Anderson advised an interviewer from New York journal, “It’s in all probability not a good suggestion to place an excessive amount of of your shallowness on one thing like this, as a result of, actually, you may make a nasty film and it may be nicely acquired, and you may make an excellent film and it may be badly acquired.”

Anderson needn’t stress about this 12 months’s fest, the place he’s presenting his newest movie, Netflix’s The Fantastic Story of Henry Sugar, a brief starring Benedict Cumberbatch and based mostly on a narrative by Roald Dahl. And he’ll obtain the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award, given to “a character who has made a very unique contribution to the up to date movie trade.”

Competition director Alberto Barbera stated of the respect, “Wes Anderson is without doubt one of the few administrators whose distinctive and unmistakable type might be acknowledged with only one body. His formal universe harks again to a childlike and visionary aesthetic … populated by misfit dreamers who’re incurably romantic and cheerful.”