The Collective (2008)

Wes Anderson’s latest film, the Phoenician Scheme, is as visually precise and as deadpan quirky as always, with the minimal style of portraying characters in the new area since his film, French Dispatch.

The Phoenician Scheme is about the late life of industrial tycoon Zsa-Zsa Korda, who survived several assassination attempts and tried to convince his novice daughter, Sister Liesl, to inherit his business plan, named “the Phoenician Scheme.” Historically, the Phoenicians are referred to as a group of people who lived primarily in the region of Lebanon and Syria and spread through the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea around the Iron Age. Phoenician traders once dominated the Mediterranean and were rivalry with the Greeks contending for colonies. In the film, a stylish map of Phoenicia functions as title cards to showcase different chapters of Korda’s journey. Where this region is located remains undisclosed.