11/16/2023 0 Comments Wes anderson french dispatch reviewsIt’s meant to be a tribute to the New Yorker, a highbrow magazine published with such unrelenting frequency that The Good Place had a running joke about hell simply being a New Yorker subscription that piles up, shamefully unread, for eternity.Īs usual, Anderson presents an enormous ensemble of familiar faces (an “A-list orgy,” as the Post says). The movie examines the final issue of a fictional mid-twentieth-century French newspaper insert called The French Dispatch. Spoiler warning: nothing in this film is interesting enough or surprising enough to warrant a spoiler warning. But I’m not embarrassed for my review to be in such company. I could find only two negative critical reviews, one of which was from the trashy-yet-oddly-astute New York Post. Yet the movie’s reception has been largely positive. It’s an assault to the senses, halfway through which I started zoning out, unable to take in more pastels or perspective shots or punchy, ironic dialogue. I know what to expect from Wes Anderson, a director my friend Hannah likes to say is “drunk on his own aesthetic.” But The French Dispatch has such a high concentration of Wes Anderson per Wes Anderson that it should be considered legally toxic in the state of California. So said my husband when he and I combed through movie reviews after seeing The French Dispatch, trying to make sense of the exhausting ordeal we’d just endured. “If I read the word ‘whimsical’ describing a Wes Anderson flick one more time… ”
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