Ahoy! I am always excited when I hear there’s a new Wes Anderson movie about to hit theaters. I love Anderson’s visually and thematically meticulous, intricate films. It’s been posited, on this site, that all of Anderson’s movies borrow elements from crime movies, and I agree. But this time, he seems to be coming out with a bonafide crime movie. He seems to be. Who knows. With Anderson, inside-outs genre so brilliantly that it’s hard to tell what anything will be before actually seeing it. Remember how Asteroid City wasn’t a sci-fi movie, as it seemed to be, but a mediation on theater and unknowability?
This new film is called The Phoenician Scheme, which is a great title, and it releases in theaters on May 30th, 2025. So, we’ll know soon what it’s all about. It seems to be about a tycoon and his daughter (who is a nun) and the adventure they embark on. IMDb calls it “The story of a family and a family business.” Could mean anything.
Until then… there’s a trailer.
