The Phoenician Scheme is Wes Anderson at his dark, melancholic best ...Middle East

The year is 1950, and Del Toro is maverick, ruthless billionaire Zsa Zsa Korda, a schemer who engineers industrial wonders and manipulates international financial markets to his gain – and who has a habit of getting into plane crashes and surviving assassination attempts, even as others around him perish. Rumoured to have murdered all three of his wives, he is a little bit Charles Foster Kane and a little bit Howard Hughes.

Benicio Del Toro as Zsa-Zsa Korda, Mia Threapleton as Liesl and Michael Cera as Bjorn (Photo: TPS Productions/Focus Features)

Enter Liesel (Mia Threapleton, AKA Kate Winslet’s daughter), a cigarette-smoking, red-nail-polished nun who is deeply unconvinced by her father’s attempts to befriend her and make her the sole heir to his fortune. Korda, always desperate to learn new things, surrounds himself with tutors, and so their team is completed by Bjorn, an oddball Scandinavian expert in insect biology played by Michael Cera, whose plot-twist tricks make him one of the funniest characters in the movie. He manages to switch between timid, tremulous professor and dashing hero with aplomb.

The Phoenician Scheme (Photo: TPS Productions/Focus Features)

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Even for Anderson fans, The Phoenician Scheme may feel a little byzantine. It’s certainly laced with more overt darkness than some of his other projects; there’s real violence here, with talk of slave labour and the global threat of careless, rich “world-builders”.

It’s the father-daughter relationship that takes precedence in The Phoenician Scheme, and Anderson gives us a rather beautiful conclusion of simplicity and acceptance. Del Toro’s performance as a blustery, fast-talking businessman is interrupted by the moral intrusion and straight-talking of his blunt daughter, who is able to cut through to his vulnerability. Ultimately, it’s their reconciliation that counts for the most. For all of Zsa Zsa Korda’s grand ambitions, it’s the relationship that remains, with the pair playing cards together in cramped impoverishment. World-shaking fortunes be damned.

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