Watching The Phoenician Scheme, a globe-trotting caper about an emotionally remote business tycoon and his long-estranged daughter, I attempted a thought experiment: What if this were the first Wes Anderson movie I had ever seen, freed from any contextual knowledge of the other 12 features this sui generis auteur has turned out in the 29 years since his debut in 1996 with Bottle Rocket?
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