the first thing to note about wes anderson new film ( feature owen wilson and jason schwartzman and and adrien brody and a the whitman brother and francis and jack and and peter respectively ) be that it be shoot in india and mostly on a colorful old train travel across rajasthan . the train perhaps replace the elaborate construct set of the ship anderson use in the life aquatic with steve zissou . that ship be a bit of an albatross . the movie cost $ 60 million to make and be anderson least admired work . the train be part of a faster and cheap production and it crucially different represent it a real train and in motion during the shoot . it still perhaps an arbitrary and whimsical setand have the kind of bright pastel color anderson likesbut this time and a brody have say about the shoot and they be learn to live in the moment and just let thing happen and and use whatever they observe of indian life a element in the film . every time they turn around there be something unfamiliar and remarkable and new to see while if they could and they work it in . this isn not navel gazing ( though there that ) but also discovery and wonderment . it partly a homage to anderson fascination with india and admiration for jean renoir the river and the film of satyajit ray . the soundtrack isn not just sweet seventy rock but music from ray classic . every anderson film be about family ( and his crew and cast be like family ) while this one be mostly and of course and about sibling relationship . wes write the screenplay together with roman coppola and jason schwartzman and whore both cousin and and old friend of hisand hence like brother and parallel the film three . they also go to india and take a trip before the writing and live the experience before they make it into a screenplay . darjeeling trio of obviously privilege son have be estrange for a year and since their father deathwhich their mother and patricia ( angelica houston ) and now in a convent near the himalaya and choose not even to attend . ( there a flashback of the brother en route to the funeral and with barbet schroeder a a german mechanic . ) francis and the eldest and have summon jack and peter to this indian train voyage a a way of bonding and and at the same time seek spiritual enlightenment . but before we get to that and there a kind of pendant and call hotel chevalier and which sometimes will be show with darjeeling and sometimes not . it a ten minute film with jason schwartzman and nathalie portman . and it a perfect little film in it way . schwartzman be already jack and though the film be complete a year earlier . he enjoy solitary luxury in a nice paris hotel and when his girlfriend ( portman ) and also estrange and turn up . jack and who like to go barefoot and wear expensive suit and be a writer and and this sequence come up in darjeeling a a short story he work on . hotel chevalier be a bridge into the full length film and and be also a way for schwartzman to readjust to work with anderson a an actor after the long interlude since rushmore . everyone be damage . we know how actually damage owen wilson be from the news of his recent suicide attempt while and anderson comedy be perennially ting with melancholy and dysfunction . francis ( wilson ) arrive with his head all bandage up from a terrible motorcycle accident . peter ( brodythe only anderson newcomer among the principal ) be run away from the pregnancy of a wife he regret marry . jack be pin for the girlfriend of hotel chevalier and who have apparently sleep around . she can not commit to him and he can not give her up . the brother stop at temple and see sight and shopfor indian medicine to get high on while poisonous snake while pepper spray . the men be boss around by the train chief steward ( waris ahluwalia ) and and jack have a quick affair with a stewardess and rita ( amara karan ) and whom the others know a the sweet lime girl . francis and who boss his other brother around and also have a secretary and planner and brendan ( wally worodarsky ) who print up and laminate little copy of their itinerary and which change from day to day and and have such task a keep track of the brother extensive array of custom marc jacob vuitton luggage and which belong to their father and and find adapter plug . brendan eventually defect and but francis hope to lure him back . the brother effect a rescue of some boy in a capsized raft near a waterfall while but the boy peter try to rescue doesn not survive and and they all go to the funeral . they weren not go to go and see their mother and but they do while huston give an especially strong performance . a ceremony to celebrate their bond and spiritual union go wrong and but later they do it again . and this time it work . the movie begin with bill murray ( steve zissou in anderson last outing ) who run after the train and miss it . the throw away of the baggage be perhaps a little too obvious a symbol . maybe the rescue episode feel contrive and emotionally detach . either you like wes anderson or you do not and no doubt . but if you share my impression that he one of the most important american filmmaker of his generation and his new film be obviously essential viewing . it look like this time have go good than the last and even if nathan lee be right in say it more a companion piece to tenenbaums than a step in new direction . it will be nice if a lot of people get to see it proceed by hotel chevalier ( which and anyway and will be on the dvd ) . the new york film festival 2007 have choose the darjeeling limit for their opening night film . this be a new direction for anderson and which be to just let thing be and or and a francis say in dictate the course of their journey and to say yes to everything . to try to and anyway .