I adore Hotel Chevalier, Wes Anderson’s companion short to The Darjeeling Limited (I like it better than the feature, if you want to know the truth, but more on that later). I’m extremely annoyed that the above, truncated version of Chevalier is making the blog rounds, a) because it reduces the film to being about Natalie Portman’s naked body, and b) because the best part of the short, in which Jason Schwartzman finds out that his ex-girlfriend is coming to visit him and scrambles to get into character, is left on the cutting room floor. I understand that even in the full version, the nudity is going to overwhelm a lot of viewers, but the idea that any work of art involving a famous, naked actress is destined to be butchered and circulated on the internet as porn really pisses me off.

But what can I do? I’m just one, lonely bloggy voice, in a swamp of traffic nazis and low-level perverts for whom real porn apparently doesn’t do the trick anymore. So watch the above clip for the T&A, if that’s what you’re after (although it’s mostly just A). If you want the full experience, you can watch Hotel Chevalier in its entirety on iTunes, for free.