The Phoenician Scheme: A Man of No Identity
Wes Anderson offers a light-hearted comedy in the Middle East centering around Catholic motifs.

An American girl Gina Lee has become disenchanted with her hometown. She buys an airline ticket to Vienna where she becomes embroiled in an intrigue to uncover buried Nazi plunder resulting in her drowning, yet her fate remains unresolved.
Wes Anderson offers a light-hearted comedy in the Middle East centering around Catholic motifs.
The plot lags, the moral lessons are misguided, but are those fluffy little donut creatures adorable? Yes. Yes, they are.
If you were to watch it on streaming when you have nothing to do, it’s still probably a giant waste of time, but you could do far worse. Paying $18 for a movie ticket and who knows how much for concessions turns this from an exercise in boredom to an exercise in frustration.
Rather than focusing on the bleak, cynical aspects of life post-pandemic, the focus is optimistic and hopeful.
Intergenerational friendships and community can be so powerful, and this was a great example.
A cat-and-mouse chase that will make viewers nostalgic for the cartoon series.