The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson, United States)
Even more than to Eastern Promises, the reaction to The Darjeeling Limited underlines the fickle attitude maintained by elite criticism toward the contemporary American auteur cinema. The Darjeeling Limited does cover similar stylistic and thematic terrain to Anderson's earlier corpus (a criticism that is rarely leveled against cinema's sister arts, for what it's worth) though it does so in a fictional India that seems perfectly suited to the filmmaker's fiction. And it does so on a locomotive - a minor but rich sub-genre - that provides a rich metaphor for the film's meta-textual concern: in this case cinema rather than the theatre of Rushmore or the novel of The Royal Tenenbaums.
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