Wes Anderson may be one of the most distinctive auteurs working in cinema today, inspiring as much adulation as eye rolls, as well as a few TikTok trends. If you love Anderson’s films, then you likely really love them. Conversely, his haters are given fuel with each new film and that’s no different with the director’s latest, The Phoenician Scheme, which just debuted in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival. After delivering one of his most poignant projects yet with Asteroid City, Anderson once again zigs when you’d expect him to zag, depicting a father desperate to repair his relationship with his estranged daughter against the backdrop of a mid-century conspiracy.