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Is “The Phoenician Scheme” Wes Anderson's Most Emotional Film?

created: June 2, 2025, 4:05 a.m. | updated: June 2, 2025, 7:54 p.m.

Wes Anderson’s new film, “The Phoenician Scheme,” is a funny-ha-ha comedy, but there’s nothing funny about its story, which involves a wealthy industrialist’s attempts to realize a grandiose infrastructure project. “The Phoenician Scheme” is the story of an amusingly bad man who becomes a little less amusing and a little less bad. Zsa-zsa’s scheme comes at a high human cost: it may bring modernization to Phoenicia, but it will depend on slave labor. As with all Anderson’s films, the design of “The Phoenician Scheme” is jubilantly exquisite. Meticulously imagined and crafted objects are central to Anderson’s world, and they express more than taste and delight.

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