![]() ![]() The film has been described as "a love letter to journalists set at an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city", centering on four stories. Nescaffier (Seeking Something Missing.) 1:56 22 Александр ДесплаCommandos, Guerillas, Snipers, Climbers And The Jeroboam 0:52.18 Александр ДесплаThe Private Dining Room Of The Police Commissioner 5:11.16 Georges DelerueAdagio (Bof Compte A Rebours) 3:14.15 The Swingle SingersFugue No.2 in C minor 1:19.14 Charles AznavourJ'en déduis que je t'aime 3:05.11 Александр ДесплаThe Berensen Lectures at the Clampette Collection 1:52.10 Mario Nascimbene“Inseguimento al Taxi (The Chase)” (From The Scent Of Mystery) 2:41.8 Boris Bjoern Bagger & Detlef TewesSonata For Mandolin And Guitar A-Dur K.331, Adagio 3:35.6 Grace JonesI've Seen That Face Before (Libertango) 4:30.2 Gene Austin & Candy And CocoAfter You've Gone 1:07.Except it all works because of the sense of love and care Anderson and his team pour into every frame, including Alexandre Desplat, who provides one of his best scores in years. ![]() All this may get a bit overwhelming, as Anderson seems to cram about 20 different movies into a two-hour runtime, and multiple viewings are definitely encouraged to even try and grasp half of what Anderson is trying to do. The film includes everything from your changing aspect ratios, to the symmetrical framing, to going from full-color to black-and-white on a whim, to extensive use of miniatures, to a phenomenal and totally out of left field animated sequence straight out of an Adventures of Tintin comic strip. We get the briefest of insights into what makes them tick and what their motivations are, but their segments are much more concerned with what they do in the short time we meet them than in what came before, leaving you with a desire to know more.Įven if The French Dispatch doesn't have the depth of other Anderson movies, it's because the director wants to re-establish himself as one of the most aesthetically distinct filmmakers today by throwing every single Wes Anderson-ism at the screen to the point where it's almost a sensory overload. Take for instance Benicio del Toro as a genius artist who is also imprisoned for a double homicide, or Timothée Chalamet as a walking, talking meme about teenagers acting like revolutionaries without a clue of how many appendixes to add to a manifesto. Out of the five segments, the travel guide, in which Owen Wilson explains the history of the fictional town where the magazine's offices are, is completely forgettable, yet Anderson isn't as interested in emotions depth or thematic resonance as he is interested in letting big personalities make big and lasting impressions on the audience. RELATED: Wes Anderson Had His ‘French Dispatch’ Cast Watch These 5 Movies Before Filmingīecause of the anthology-like format and the runtime restrictions on each segment, The French Dispatch feels a bit emotionally distant compared to some of Anderson's other movies. ![]()
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