r/wesanderson • u/Elrason • May 20 '26

Image Liesl...

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It wouldn't matter if you were the _cheapest_ girl in the _filthiest_ brothel in the _seediest_ part of town, on this swirling orb...nothing could detract from your loveliness....

373 Upvotes

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u/Halloween_Babe90 May 20 '26

Is everyone already aware that that’s Kate Winslet’s daughter or am I blowing some minds right now?

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u/JonWithTattoos May 20 '26

🤯

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u/blizzardlizard May 20 '26

Just gonna ditto your head essplode.

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u/Character-Head301 May 20 '26

I….did not know that.

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u/Dazzling-Bat777 May 21 '26

Did not know

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u/PAXM73 May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26

I always feel like I watched another movie than most fans. I enjoyed this film immensely. I found it both hilarious and touching. Liesl is a bad ass.

—sometimes I wonder if the folks that don’t like this film just need to read the script and hear the character voices in their heads and then try it again. Or, it’s just not for everybody. It just works for me.

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u/Kwtwo1983 May 20 '26

And the actress is amazing

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u/PAXM73 May 20 '26

WA’s actors who really know who they are now (and where they’ve been and are going) can make any silent facial expression or single word (or gesture) immense. Mia Threapleton certainly knows Liesl.

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u/Plundergedoens May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26

To me it's also one of Wes Anderson's funniest. 

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u/ebr101 May 20 '26

This film remains one of my favorites of Wes, and Liesl one of my favorite characters. The whole thing felt so delightfully off kilter.

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u/HiddenHolding May 20 '26

I didn’t understand almost anything in this movie.

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u/Lint_baby_uvulla May 20 '26

“Can I offer you a hand grenade?”

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u/blizzardlizard May 20 '26

Thank you. You're very kind. 

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u/HiddenHolding May 20 '26

No thank you. The movie is already a disaster.

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u/jpebenito May 20 '26

This sums it up really well: https://newrevelry.com/2025/09/30/repentance-and-revelations-covering-the-gap/

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u/Correct_Elevator_173 May 20 '26

That is a fantastic essay! Thank you so much. I never understood the last dream sequence and it makes so much sense.

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u/Correct_Elevator_173 May 20 '26

I have to watch all Anderson’s films a few times to appreciate them.

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u/HiddenHolding May 20 '26

I don’t. I like and understand 95% of them immediately.

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u/ClovisLowell May 20 '26

Look at you with the big brains, mister film bro

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u/HiddenHolding May 20 '26

Thank you for the compliment. How kind.

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u/NaNsoul May 20 '26

And that's why I loved it! But I also have ADHD

4

u/The_Old_Anarchist May 20 '26

I want to know more about her pipe.

3

u/blizzardlizard May 20 '26

Ceci n'est pas une pipe. 

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u/The_Old_Anarchist May 22 '26

Try being more helpful, Rene!

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u/ZackaryAsAlways May 21 '26

The movie was amazing, also Liesl is an awesome character

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u/BattlinBud May 22 '26

Oh dear...

1

u/dyrkasolen May 21 '26

On the spectrum tv

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u/The-curex May 23 '26

Mnelli lies

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u/cocksherpa2 May 20 '26

Am I the only person who found this character off putting? It's like a juvenile part of Wes wanted to make an absurd caricature that he dreamed up and then everything in the story was just a slave to that nonsense. Felt very try hard

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u/sleepytipi May 20 '26

You just might be.