The French Dispatch

MOVIE #1,230 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 11.09.23 WES ANDERSON: DIRECTOR FOCUS The third installment of this starring Geoffrey Wright was an incoherent mess but maybe I was just really tired watching it. In fact, the quality seems to depreciate as the film rolls along, with the opening short — “The Concrete Masterpiece” starring Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton and Léa Seydoux among others — being the best and most fun by a wide margin.

This was the only Anderson movie I haven’t seen when it came out since The Royal Tenenbaums. Up next in my reverse chronological rewatch is Isle of Dogs, which really rubbed me the wrong way on my first and only viewing. Will be interesting to see if my opinion changes this go-round. But suffice to say, that’s why I waited so long to watch this one. I think I was pleasantly surprised, all things considered, as I’m generally not a fan of anthologies.

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The French Dispatch (titled onscreen as The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun) is a 2021 American anthology comedy drama film written, directed, and produced by Wes Anderson from a story he conceived with Roman Coppola, Hugo Guinness, and Jason Schwartzman. It features an expansive ensemble cast and follows three different storylines as the French foreign bureau of the fictional Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun newspaper publishes its final issue. It was released on July 12, 2021.