Darjeeling Limited

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Movie
German title Darjeeling Limited
Original title The Darjeeling Limited
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2007
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 10
Rod
Director Wes Anderson
script Wes Anderson,
Roman Coppola ,
Jason Schwartzman
production Wes Anderson,
Roman Coppola,
Lydia Dean Pilcher ,
Scott Rudin
camera Robert D. Yeoman
cut Andrew Weisblum
occupation

Darjeeling Limited (Original title: The Darjeeling Limited ) is an American adventure comedy from 2007 . Directed by Wes Anderson , who co- wrote the script with Roman Coppola and Jason Schwartzman .

action

The three Americans Francis, Peter and Jack Whitman are brothers and have not seen each other since the death of their father a year ago when they meet again on a train traveling through India . The train is called The Darjeeling Limited and is also the namesake of the film. The eldest brother, Francis, arranged the trip and planned it meticulously. She is said to amount to a reunion with her mother, who runs a Christian monastery in India. Since all the brothers have a broken relationship with their mother, Francis keeps the actual reason for the trip a secret and pretends it is a spiritual self-discovery trip. To date, however, Francis 'brothers are not very convinced of the point of this venture and are annoyed by Francis' regulatory behavior: With the help of his assistant Brendan, he draws up an extremely meticulous daily schedule. He even takes their passports from his younger siblings so that they cannot break off their trip prematurely. Francis wears several head wraps because he sustained a number of injuries in a motorcycle accident. The youngest Whitman, Jack, has just completed a short story called Luftwaffe Automotive , the name of which appears later in the film. Even if he denies it, the story has many parallels to his life. You can already learn something of this life through the short film Hotel Chevalier , which is shown right before the main film. In it he meets his ex-girlfriend (Natalie Portman) in a Paris hotel, although he actually wanted to avoid this meeting. In The Darjeeling Limited , Jack obsessively listens to his ex-girlfriend's answering machine every time the train stops. He finds a little distraction in an affair with the Indian train attendant Rita.

Peter, the middle brother, describes himself as the father's darling, which makes Francis very outraged. With this, Peter justifies the fact that he took all his father's belongings for himself. Peter's wife Alice, from whom he actually wants to divorce, is expecting a child.

All three brothers shared an excessive drug consumption from the start. They even hold one of Francis' spiritual rituals in the course of which it turns out that neither Peter nor Jack understood the procedure of burying the feather correctly. On their trips to the Indian province, they visit temples and markets. At a market, Peter buys a highly poisonous snake that later escapes from its transport container. For this reason, the three of them, together with their extensive luggage, are thrown from the train by the conductor and left behind in the desert. The three of them throw stones at the departing train.

On the way through the Indian pampas, they are involved in an accident with three boys. These threaten to drown in a river. Jack and Francis can pull two of the boys out of the water, but Peter does not manage to save "his" boy, who dies. They bring the dead to his village. There, despite language difficulties, they are welcomed into the village community in a friendly manner and take part in the ritual burning of the boy.

Flashback: The three brothers and Peter's wife Alice are on their way to their father's funeral. However, they unexpectedly stop at the Luftwaffe Automotive workshop (referring to the title of Jack's short story), because Peter really wants to pick up his father's Porsche . However, this is not ready to drive, so that the three unfinished things have to go. In the event of a conflict with a road user, the brothers show aggressiveness and solidarity.

The Whitmans now leave the village and take a bus that takes them to the airport. Shortly before departure, they decide to visit their mother after all, who, however, had previously stated in a letter that a visit was not possible at the moment. Unimpressed by this rejection, Peter, Jack and Francis travel to the Christian monastery of their mother, Sister Patricia. The greeting is warm and the family seems happily united for a moment. The next morning, however, the three brothers discover that their mother has fled the family again and left their children behind.

So the three of them make their way back and again barely reach a train, throwing off their luggage in a gesture of liberation, which remains on the platform. In the final scene, Francis tries to give Jack and Peter back their passports. However, these note that he should keep them because they are better off with him. A return to the prologue is the end of the new short story that Jack is now reading to his brothers. It reproduces Jack's meeting with his ex-girlfriend at the Chevalier hotel.

Soundtrack

No. title Artist / composer
1. Where Do You Go To My Lovely Peter Sarstedt
2. Title Music (from Satyajit Ray's film Jalsaghar ) Vilayat Khan
3. This Time Tomorrow The Kinks
4th Title Music (from Satyajit Ray's film Teen Kanya ) Satyajit Ray
5. Title Music (from Merchant - Ivory's film The Householder ) Ali Akbar Khan
6th Ruku's Room (from Satyajit Ray's film Joi Baba Felunath ) Satyajit Ray
7th Charu's Theme (from Satyajit Ray's film Charulata ) Satyajit Ray
8th. Title Music (from Merchant-Ivory's film Bombay Talkie ) Shankar-Jaikishan
9. Montage (from Nityananda Datta's film Baksa Badal ) Satyajit Ray
10. Prayer (Traditional) Jodhpur Sikh Temple Congregation
11. Farewell To Earnest (from Merchant-Ivory's film The Householder ) Ali Akbar Khan
12. The Deserted Ballroom (from Merchant-Ivory's film Shakespeare Wallah ) Satyajit Ray
13. Claude Debussy: Suite bergamasque : 3rd Clair De Lune Alexis Weissenberg
14th Typewriter, Tip, Tip, Tip (from Merchant-Ivory's film Bombay Talkie ) Kishore Kumar / Shankar-Jaikishan
15th Memorial (Traditional) Narlia Village Troubadour
16. Strangers The Kinks
17th Praise Him (Traditional) Udaipur Convent School Nuns and Students
18th Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, op. 92. 4th movement: Allegro con brio Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
19th Play With Fire (Mono Version) The Rolling Stones
20th Arrival in Benares (from Merchant-Ivory's film The Guru ) Vilayat Khan
21st Powerman The Kinks
22nd Les Champs-Elysees Joe Dassin

Reviews

Ray Bennett described the film in The Hollywood Reporter on September 3, 2007 as "a train journey with no laughs or charm." He could have problems finding an audience other than fans of the stars involved.

Susan Vahabzadeh wrote in 2007 in the Süddeutsche Zeitung that the director reveled “in the colors of a very used-looking world”, which - “like his characters” - was “full of quirks and infinitely beautiful” and about which he said “in his own, surreal way " tell. The critic compared the film to the comedy The Royal Tenenbaums .

The editors of kino-zeit.de wrote that it was “once again about the classic interplay of cultures, about West meets East, about stupid Americans abroad”. About "the resulting mishaps and embarrassments combined with a lot of comedy" one could "not really laugh out of all the comedy [...], at least the big laughs" did not materialize. Wes Anderson's fans would "get their money's worth".

backgrounds

The film was shot in India , including in Jodhpur ( Rajasthan ). Its world premiere took place at the 2007 Venice Film Festival , which opened on August 29 , in which it participated as a competition entry. On September 28, 2007, it was screened at the New York Film Festival . One day later it started in cinemas in the USA - where it grossed around 11.4 million US dollars - while the German theatrical release took place on January 3, 2008.

The director said he wanted to make a film on a train because it was moving, just as the story was moving forward. He had already made a film on a ship ( Die Tiefseetaucher ; “ I'd always wanted to make a movie on a train because I like the idea of ​​a moving location. It goes forward as the story goes forward. […] I already set a movie on a boat. ”) Anderson never visited India until the shooting, but he knew the country from a few films, including that of the Indian film writer Satyajit Ray .

A special artistic feature of the film is that many camera angles are frontal and symmetrical, which is rather unusual in film productions. In such cases, camera pans are carried out at a 90 ° angle, both horizontally and vertically, and camera movements take place at a 90 ° angle to the direction of view. Wes Andersons later used these stylistic devices even more consistently in the film Grand Budapest Hotel and implemented them there almost throughout the entire film.

Awards

year price category Nominee result
2008 Price: adult films Best comedy The Darjeeling Limited Won
2008 Bodil Best American Film (Bedste amerikanske film) Wes Anderson Nominated
2007 Princess of Asturias Prize Best movie Wes Anderson Nominated
2007 New York Film Critics Online Award Best script Wes Anderson
Jason Schwartzman
Roman Coppola 		Won
2007 New York Film Critics Online Award Top films of the year The Darjeeling Limited Won
2007 Venice International Film Festival Little golden lion Wes Anderson Won
2007 Venice International Film Festival Golden lion Wes Anderson Nominated

The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Darjeeling Limited . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2007 (PDF; test number: 112 461 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Darjeeling Limited . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ^ Ray Bennett: Film Review. ( Memento of October 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved January 3, 2008
  4. ↑ Susan Vahabzadeh: Review. sueddeutsche.de, September 4, 2007; Retrieved September 4, 2007
  5. ↑ kino-zeit.de accessed on January 25, 2017
  6. ↑ Filming locations for The Darjeeling Limited, accessed January 5, 2008
  7. ^ Opening dates for The Darjeeling Limited, accessed September 2, 2007
  8. ^ Box office / business for The Darjeeling Limited. Retrieved January 2, 2008
  9. ↑ emanuellevy.com, accessed on September 2, 2007