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French dispatch runtime9/13/2023 ![]() ![]() The pretty pastel pictures of “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” the vintage vacation postcards of “Moonrise Kingdom,” and now, the midcentury lost-and-found collection of “The French Dispatch” hit either your sweet or sour tastebuds, and usually nowhere in-between. If Anderson’s retro fetish gives you lemon face, well, whatcha doing reading a review? A visual artist embracing a visual medium with a distinct and attractive point of view - quelle horreur! Shot selections, attention to details are a hallmark of Wes Anderson movies ![]() “The Private Dining Room of the Police Commissioner” embeds food writer Roebuck Wright (Jeffrey Wright) in a dinner party that turns into a madcap kidnapping chase, where only a renowned police chef (Stephen Park) holds the ingredients to a happy ending. Krementz, ever at a journalistic and personal remove, also becomes wrapped in Zeffirelli’s sheets (or vice versa, technically). “Revisions to a Manifesto” entangles resolutely alone reporter Lucinda Krementz (Frances McDormand) in a student revolution, led by mustachioed idealist Zeffirelli (Timothée Chalamet) and motorbiking firebrand Juliette (Lyna Khoudri). Hey, two Timothée Chalamet movies: Space nuns, Shakespearian twinks, sinking sand in 'Dune' “The Concrete Masterpiece” finds the writer J.K.L. Berensen (Tilda Swinton, shifting shape this time into a clucking, caftanned chicken lady of great elegance) recounting the story of an insane inmate (Benicio del Toro), the asylum guard he loves (Léa Seydoux) and the art collector (Adrien Brody) obsessed with the paintings that she inspires the madman to create. ![]() Herbsaint Sazerac (Owen Wilson) narrates the opening travelogue through the sordid streets of Ennui from his omnipresent bicycle. Scene set. I’ll let you discover the first one for yourself. (Bill Murray) is the mostly benevolent dictator around whom orbits a stylish, brilliant, idiosyncratic cast of journalists writing about their lives abroad in Ennui, France, for subscribers back in Liberty, Kansas.Īnderson delivers to us a true magazine: an obituary, a travelogue and three stories. 'The French Dispatch' cast includes Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Tilda Swinton and more Hollywood starsįramed around the final issue of the titular periodical, editor Arthur Howitzer Jr. I love it. “The French Dispatch” delivers as one of his greatest projects, where even the filmmaker’s signature weaknesses cannot topple a singularly gorgeous ode to strangers in strange lands. Anderson is one of the most distinctive film stylists in Hollywood history, whether you like that style or not. ![]()
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