The French Dispatch (2020)

Dom said:

Jesus, that cast

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My thoughts exactly, hell they even have the fonz in this thing

My goodness.

lookin' good

I think people just want to be in Wes Anderson movies. Because jaaaaaysus. That is a cast.

Still wish WA would make this into a real film.

Often amusing, rarely funny. More importantly, I feel his later efforts have been a bit dry. For me Wes Anderson is at his best when he manages to convey a strange kind of very human nostalgic sadness in spite of the extreme stylization. You need a particular kind of story and particular kind of actors for that. You need your Owen Wilson or your Bill Murray. They are both here and the film is articulated around a death, but the two actors have a combined 5 min of screen time and the death of Murray's character is just a pretext for a collection of short films that are the articles of the last issue of the newspaper he was editing. I think the movie would have worked better for me if the meat of it was Bill Murray wrestling with the journalists over their articles. We only get 20 seconds of that per chapter and that's probably the best part of the movie.

His style remains very unique and enjoyable, of course, but it stopped evolving since Moonrise Kingdom in 2012 and, for my money, his best films were even before that (The Darjeeling Limited and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou).

This came out on HBO Max today. Its fine, didnt keep my attention to well. Probably my least favorite Wes Anderson movie so far.

I liked the first two stories.

The one about the painter in prison was my favorite, mainly for his relationship with the girl.

The second story, about the young revolutionary, captures exactly what it felt like to be a teenager. At least for me. You are so idealistic you think you got all the answers and you can change the world. But you really just want to get laid.

Third story was kind of lame.

All in all they kind of felt half finished, like they would have been better if they all took place at the same time. Maybe that is what he does in other movies and he tried something new here.