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...shock but not a surprise to see Owen Wilson in The Darjeeling Limited, the new semi-comedy from Wes Anderson that had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 3. As Francis, the eldest of the three Whitman brothers, he's clearly in physical distress. His head is wrapped in two thick bandages. His nose has a Band-Aid on it. His right hand and wrist are taped, and he uses a cane to walk...
...looks a mess--funny in the context of the film; not so, given Wilson's hospitalization on Aug. 26 for what was described as a slashed-wrist suicide attempt. Instead of walking the red carpet in Venice, reportedly the actor was in his Santa Monica home under 24-hour watch by friends and family...
This--along with the fact that Wilson is one of three brothers (Andrew and Luke are in movies too)--concludes the witness report on the coincidences between Francis Whitman and Owen Wilson. Enough with the creepiness already. What actually registers most strongly in Darjeeling is the sweet deadpan charm that Wilson has brought to all five of Anderson's movies...
...fear Darjeeling, which opens the New York Film Festival Sept. 28 and will play in major cities shortly thereafter, is beyond even Wilson's powers of persuasion. It's the story of three well-heeled guys on one of those self-help vacations that upper-class searchers took in the '60s. They meet up with their mother (Anjelica Huston)--the source, we soon realize, of some of the boys' bad habits...
...wife ... and Bill Murray as a businessman also seen briefly at the film's opening. It's a graceful series of snapshots into the lives of Darjeeling's subsidiary characters. Maybe Anderson could make a film about each of them. And perhaps collaborate on the screenplays with Owen Wilson. It could be therapeutic...