Before all the pastels, symmetrical shots and elaborate sets, there was Bottle Rocket - Wes Anderson's charming debut before he was Wes Anderson. Now showing with us in honour of his latest film: The Phoenician Scheme.

The typical Anderson elements are there, without being overtly obvious. Absurd characters, dryly comic dialogues and an underlying melancholy? Check, check, double check. In Bottle Rocket we follow three friends who aspire to a life of crime, but are anything but professional. With Owen and Luke Wilson in their first major roles, the film feels like a sincere ode to youthful naivety and misplaced ambitions. What makes this film so special for fans is its raw, unpolished character. It is Anderson without the visual flair, but with all the emotional core that makes his later work so strong. As if you are holding his sketchbook in your hands, full of first ideas that would later grow into masterpieces.