This week on the Tower Productions Podcast, we’re checking our emotional baggage (and 11 matching Louis Vuitton suitcases) and hopping aboard The Darjeeling Limited — Wes Anderson’s oddly tender, deeply symmetrical, and wildly underrated story about three brothers, one train, and a whole lot of unresolved trauma.

🚂 Join our dysfunctional family of filmmakers — a producer, DP, actor, gaffer, and screenwriter — as we unpack every frame of this pastel-tinted pilgrimage across India. Is Darjeeling secretly Anderson’s most soulful work? Or just a really well-dressed midlife crisis? Either way, we’ve got takes.

From the perfectly framed long shots and slow-motion struts to the raw undercurrent of grief, detachment, and spiritual wanderlust, this one’s a deep dive into the weird beauty of family drama told Wes-style — quirky, controlled, and just a little bit chaotic.

🎬 We talk blocking on a moving train, handheld vs dolly, symbolism-heavy luggage, Owen Wilson’s nose bandage, and how this film quietly breaks the rules without ever raising its voice.

If you’ve ever wanted to hear working filmmakers overanalyze a short film within a film (Hotel Chevalier, anyone?), this is the episode for you.

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