He is one of the most powerful people in the world. He doesn’t need a passport. That explains Benicio del Toros Businessman Zsa-Zsa Korda in The Phoenician master prankthe new film by Wes Anderson. Korda has escaped several attempts at assassination. At breakfast, he determines hunger and prosperity in foreign countries and if his plane crashes, he sits down on the joystick. Influential handlebars like him do not need a passport, because they do not need human rights. They are above the conventional idea of ​​law or law.

Wes Anderson’s Unexpectedly action-rich spy adventurethat with the Film Festival in Cannes In the competition for the golden palm, the question therefore opens up how much “human” is in such a businessman. And invites a ranks of Hollywood stars, a communist guerrilla group, an expectant nun and a golden Michael Cera As an insect specialist in front of the camera.

Wes Anderson returns to the cinema with the Phoenician master prank after his Netflix excursion

Anderson’s youngest works that Roald Dahl films at Netflix and the Retro-science fiction from Asteroid Cityrely on large ensembles with many small episodes connected to each other. In the Phoenician master prank there, on the other hand, there is a real leading actor and that is called Benicio del Toro.

His Mega-Tycoon was less inspired by the Trumps and Musks of the world. Wes Anderson’s own father -in -lawthe Lebanese businessman Fouad Malouf, served as one of the role models. Fictional and real European film bosses of the 1960s-think of Carlo Ponti -Also fed the portrait of the maker Zsa-Zsa Korda. Its name is even a reference bundle with direct reference to a well -known filmmaker family.

Here is the trailer for Wes Anderson new film:

The Phoenician master prank – Trailer (German) HD

Said attempts at assassination gnaw on the businessman, as well as worries about his legacy. Korda jumped from the shovel, but now he has to live with the thought of him. The Korda blessed with nine sons and a daughter therefore choses the prospective nun Liesl (Mia Threapleton) as the heiress of his entire assets. Does he just want to outsmart his competition or does he have sentimental motives?

What is the Phoenician master prank now?

The title “Phoenician master prank” drives the story and his plans are hidden in several shoe boxes that serve as chapter. It is a Huge infrastructure project in the (now) fictional country Phoenicia in the Middle East. A gigantic dam, a tunnel, a channel – something like that. With this project, Korda wants to bring in a bunch of coal and also fertilize the entire region. A megalomanic plan, as it is in the book (and in reality, e.g. Saudi Arabia, is very popular).

To do this, however, he has to go to a number of consortia, gangs and of Scarlett Johanssons utopian community. He needs their financing. Of course he does this with Liesl, the house teacher Bjorn (Michael Cera) and other attempts at attack in tow. From this, Wes Anderson and his co-author tinker Roman Coppola As usual, a smorgasbord of detailed buildings, chewy acquaintances and cute dialogue pearls.

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Despite Tom Hanks and Scarlett Johansson, the espionage adventure belongs only one: Benicio del Toro

Anderson’s new “master prank” does not really reach the abundance of world pain of one Grand Budapest Hotel or the one unforgettable moment à la Asteroid City (keyword: balcony). For that is that Plot too busy with his shoe boxes. Benicio del Toro and Riz Ahmed against Tom Hanks and Bryan Cranston at basketball (!). Who wants to complain about watching Hanks and Cranston when they sink one threesome one after the other like the heirs of Steph Curry?

Nevertheless, the father-daughter relationship at the center of the film ensures a fertile emotional component that is not a matter of course in Wes Anderson’s films. Benicio del Toro plays Korda with the aura of a great man who does not on red carpets, but simply exists on another level of existence. Watching him how Korda is slowly landing on the floor and thus at eye level with his daughter is the great strength of the Phoenician prank.

In some of his other films, Anderson himself hovers over the things like a corda. He creates his own reality, with sets and puppets that look like millions of actors. In his new film he does not go into the trap. Wes Anderson does not have its best with the Phoenician prank, but made a vulnerable film. In it, as a questioning and doubtful author, father, son, he is as present as rare.

We saw the Phoenician master prank at the Film Festival in Cannes, where it runs in the competition for the Golden Palm. The new film by Wes Anderson Starts on May 29th in the German cinemas.