Wes Anderson on the Darkness at the Heart of His Films
Ana Maria Rus
Photo: Roger Do Minh/TPS Productions/Focus Features “The boy was murdered, I think, by the people who were meant to love him.” Wes Anderson is talking about a surreal moment that occurs early in his latest film, The Phoenician Scheme , in which the protagonist, the ruthless international tycoon Zsa-Zsa Korda (Benicio del Toro), experiences a vision of the afterlife. Zsa-Zsa has just had a close call with death, and now he finds himself attending a heavenly black-and-white funeral for a young
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