![]() The stories featured for this final issue of the Dispatch involve a perfectly whimsical tour about town by travel writer Herbsaint Sazerac (Owen Wilson), a story about an inmate who is also a genius artist by J.K.L. (Bill Murray), whose death becomes the centerpiece of this issue of the magazine, effectively ending the publication with one last hurrah. The Dispatch is headed by gruff, no-nonsense editor-in-chief Arthur Howitzer Jr. The film unfolds like a magazine with a number of different stories, narrated by their authors, all based on the extraordinary happenings around the small town. The Dispatch started out life as a travelogue for a fictional Kansas newspaper, and eventually came to find its home base in a fictional 20th-century French town, staffed by a team of American expatriates. The French Dispatch follows a literary magazine fashioned after The New Yorker. You can feel how much fun he’s having making this movie, which is a special occurrence for a 10th outing. For Wes Anderson fans and completists, The French Dispatch captures the director in peak form: inventive, lively, and clashing all numbers of styles, shots, kinetic editing, framing techniques, colors, and narration. His latest film, The French Dispatch, is a love letter certainly-to journalism, to writers, to art in general and filmmaking specifically-and rather than change or adapt in the way some want to see, he gloriously doubles down on his style, making for his most maximalist, hyper-imaginative film yet. He’s seen as too “twee,” too quirky, and too predictable to many of his detractors.īut the most endearing thing about Wes Anderson is that he’s a hopelessly romantic filmmaker, and these worlds he creates clearly mean a lot to him. Salinger novels, and pretty much all European culture. ![]() There is an Andersonian style and visual language built from bright color and pastel templates, French new wave, British Invasion pop, ’70s folk and rock music, J.D. And yet, Anderson can be a polarizing filmmaker. Even his worst outings are technical achievements. He builds worlds and cinematic dioramas first, and manifests stories from there. And you know a Wes Anderson movie the moment you see it. There are no movies like Wes Anderson movies.
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