The French Dispatch (Wes Anderson, October 22, 2021) Movie • Page 13

this is leaving hbo max at the end of this month

 

time for a rewatch, then.

 

shit, forgot this is now on hulu

 

I am a huge Wes Anderson fan and I finally got a chance to watch this. I won't lie, I was extremely bored for 2/3 of this movie and really was not feeling it at all. Took me two sittings to get through. Something clicked during the Jeffrey Wright sequence though when he was being interviewed by Liev Schreiber and I honestly started to love what this movie was doing, and by the cartoon police chase through the city I was fully on board.

I'm gonna have to do a rewatch because when the movie ended I felt like it was great. Not his best movie by any stretch, whereas I do think Grand Budapest was way up there, but absolutely not the boring trainwreck I really thought it was at first.

For all the flack Wes Anderson takes about posing his actors like dolls in a diorama, it really hit me during this one just how much the fact that he gets some of the best actors in the world in his movies really do truly elevate them. Watching actors perform in his movies sorta reminds me of how watching incredible actors in a play feels, where their performance is the main thing drawing you in and getting you to ignore some of the artifice of what's in front of you.