US Edition[Satire] Benicio Del Toro: Imagination Runs Amok in 'Phoenician Scheme'
- Wes Anderson's film 'The Phoenician Scheme' premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and opened in NYC and LA on May 30, 2025.
- The movie, set in 1950, follows Anatole 'Zsa-zsa' Korda, a ruthless European industrialist played by Benicio Del Toro, who survived multiple assassination attempts.
- Korda plans to leave his wealth to his estranged nun daughter, Liesl, while orchestrating a complex, often violent scheme involving Phoenicia and facing enemies worldwide.
- Critics noted the film's 1 hour 45 minutes runtime and PG-13 rating, praising Del Toro's performance as flawless and highlighting a seven-minute ovation at Cannes.
- The film’s release suggests a compelling father-daughter drama layered within a spy narrative, blending Anderson’s signature style with intricate themes of power and morality.
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‘The Phoenician Scheme’ review
The Phoenician Scheme adds to Wes Anderson’s collection of stylized affective filmmaking, which is another customary masterpiece among his social commentaries, satires, and family dramas set in diorama-seeming sets. The espionage black comedy is maybe Anderson’s most thrilling film, and the human relationship element is successful as always, because Anderson understands people. He and writing partner Roman Coppola know how to convey human exper…
Benicio Del Toro on Standing Ovation for ‘the Phoenician Scheme'
Actor Benicio Del Toro joins TODAY to talk about his role in the new Wes Anderson movie “The Phoenician Scheme” where he plays a character who survives multiple assassination attempts and launches a plan to protect his family fortune, traveling all over the continent with his daughter and sole heir to make a deal. He opens up about working with the star-studded cast, getting a seven-minute standing ovation for the film and more.
Wes Anderson doesn't know if he chose Bill Murray to play God in 'The Phoenician Scheme,' but, 'possibly God did'
"It just didn't seem that he was faking it. We knew very quickly he was going to be an informal God," Anderson says of his star.Courtesy of TPS Productions/Focus Features Bill Murray stars as God in director Wes Anderson's 'The Phoenician Scheme'Key PointsWriter-director Wes Anderson says he doesn't think he chose Bill Murray to play God in his latest film, The Phoenician Scheme, but "possibly God did."He describes Murray's version of the Almigh…
New film "The Phoenician Scheme"Director Wes AndersonScreenwriters Wes Anderson and Roman CoppolaCinematographer Bruno DelbonnelComposer Alexandre DesplatStarring Benicio del Toro, Mia Threapleton, Michael Cera, Riz Ahmed, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Scarlett Johansson and others. Review published in Sirbis
How Wes Anderson Finally Lost Me
Culture How Wes Anderson Finally Lost Me The American auteur’s The Phoenician Scheme falls flat. There aren’t 10 people in the big Regal theater outside Richmond, Virginia on opening night of Wes Anderson’s newest film, the Phoenician Scheme. I arrive 15 minutes late with the hope of skipping what has become an endless procession of trailers before the feature but am still forced to sit through several previews. “A director of Fargo” reads the…
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