IMDb plot summary: A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional twentieth century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in "The French Dispatch Magazine".
Directed by Wes Anderson. Starring Benicio Del Toro, Adrien Brody, and Tilda Swinton.
The French Dispatch is Wes Anderson's new movie, and boy, is it a Wes Anderson movie. There's not a lot of plot to it. It is a sort of visual representation of an edition of a fictional magazine. We see the various stories and editorials dramatized for the screen, with all the big colors and stylized tableaux and half-animated sequences that give Anderson such a distinctive visual style. I feel about this much the same way as I felt about The Grand Budapest Hotel, in that I had an absolutely delightful time watching it but the story itself is so insubstantial and so episodic and the style so linked to Anderson as a filmmaker rather than to the core of the story or the narrative that it's almost impossible to remember as an entity in itself. It's just another chapter in Anderson's film history. It isn't set apart from Anderson's other work in any meaningful way. That doesn't mean it's a bad film, there are plenty of filmmakers who make basically the same film over and over again who I deeply love, but I suspect I will be left with the same lingering vague feelings of fondness for this as I do for Grand Budapest Hotel or Moonrise Kingdom or most other efforts by Anderson.
How it entered my Flickchart:
The French Dispatch > Dark and Stormy Night
The French Dispatch < Till Death
The French Dispatch > I Saw the Devil
The French Dispatch < The Power of the Dog
The French Dispatch > A Shot in the Dark
The French Dispatch > La jetee
The French Dispatch > A Little Night Music
The French Dispatch > Native Son (2019)
The French Dispatch < Dogma
The French Dispatch < Up in the Air
The French Dispatch < VeggieTales: Rack, Shack & Benny
The French Dispatch > Full Metal Jacket
Final spot: #1122 out of 3551, or 68%.
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