Why you need to watch Netflix's Wes Anderson and Roald Dahl crossover

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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

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What’s better than one new Wes Anderson film? Four new Wes Anderson films, and you shall have them. The visionary director has adapted four lesser-known Roald Dahl tales into shorts forNetflix.

The four shorts also all feature mostly the same primary actors including Benedict Cumberbatch, Sir Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Dev Patel and Richard Ayoade. Withrave reviewsfor the flagship film in the collection,The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugarand three excellent offbeat shorts that are well worth a watch.

Whether you plan to watch them one at a time or all in a row to form a feature-length anthology, here’s the lowdown on each story.

1. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

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2. The Swan

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The Swan

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Another Dahl story featured in his short story collectionThe Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More,this is a brisk 17 minute story of a genius young boy being ruthlessly bullied. It features the tensest scene of the collection.

As well as Ralph Fiennes, this story also stars Rupert Friend and young Asa Jennings as lead character Peter. I won’t spoil too much but the short story at least is a touch darker than Henry Sugar’s tale. Perhaps those critics had a point Roald?

3. The Rat Catcher

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The Rat Catcher

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This wasn’t actually in the Henry Sugar collection, but 1954’sSomeone Like Youso clearly Anderson has specifically chosen it and has something special in mind. As you might expect it centers around a professional rat exterminator and some talking rodents.

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Ralph Fiennes put in some fine work as the creepy title character but I would still argue this is perhaps the most ‘out-there’ of the movies in this collection.

4. Poison

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Poison

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Poisonhas been adapted before when Alfred Hitchcock did his own TV version of this story in 1958, so there are big boots to fill.

This is a very simple story of a man in India who wakes to find a poisonous snake in his bed, and features Cumberbatch (in his pyjamas), Fiennes, Kingsley and Dev Patel- with Fiennes playing the author himself. Of the three shorter films, this might be the best, with Patel in particular giving a very strong performance.

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