Darjeeling Limited.
Hotel Chevalier was a better view only because it was a new use of the Wes Anderson aesthetic. Darjeeling Limited is touching at times and of course composed with detail, but it's lacking when considering something like Life Aquatic which was such an over-the-top use of his style already.
Hotel Chevalier, on the other hand, is the first time something genuinely intimate has been filmed with Anderson's characteristically sterile camera. The result is a paradoxical love scene, something that should be tender but isn't. But it works, because the scene is awkward in the first place.
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