The French Dispatch (2021)

I don't like Wes Anderson films and this one was no different. A pretentious bore.

Tilda Swinton and Jeffrey Wright were my favorite parts.

R1 How were you bored? Why don't you like Wes Anderson? (He's one of the few modern directors I can trust to put together a good film.

Too twee, too self-contained, too much artifice. His little tableaus and obsessive framing and camera dollies. Feels like someone playing with their action figures in the attic. I loved "Rushmore" but everything since then has grown increasingly Wes Andersonish, which is fine if you're into it. I ain't.

R4 The reasons you hate Anderson is the reason I love him- you can pause any still and see so much. Anderson is a cross between an anime artist and an oil painter.

[quote] and an oil painter

Boy With Apple

I thought we were getting a Chalamet Cock scene. I was wrong.

R7 It was close. We will just have ask Frances McDormand how he was in the sack.

There was a lot of nudity in this. Surprising for a Wes Anderson film

But I don't want to watch a still painting, I want to watch a movie with a narrative that tells a story, but geaux awf, R5. Please enjoy.

Seen one Wes Anderson film....

R11 not true

I'd forgotten this was even made, let alone released.

Bad timing w/COVID.

I don't feel as strongly as you do about his work, Miss OP. But I am curious and may watch this soon. I'd watch Tilda read traffic signs.

R13 I watched it on HBO Max. I'm sure you can watch it online for free somewhere, too.

R14 She's just an overrated fag hag

[quote] R14 She's just an overrated fag hag

HBO Max's pronouns do not include "She".

Omg I wanted to scrape my eyes out with a putty knife after watching this. Pretentious bore doesn’t even begin to describe this nonsensical waste of celluloid. I would rather stare into the toilet and look at the shit I just took than watch this again.

It rambled on forever and the pacing was painful. I usually love Wes Anderson but this needs to be taken in the back and shot for the sake of all of humanity.

R17 I liked the pacing. Why do you feel it was bad?

I thought it was a fantastic film. I saw it when it had been out just a short while and was mesmerized.

Anime is for suckers, Asians, and the obese. Why is it even bring brought up in a film thread?

That being said, Wes Anderson is a flim-flam operator.

Great score though

It really is a movie that epitomizes Wes Anderson, so I guess you'll love it or hate depending on how you feel about the auteur.

I enjoyed it, although I wouldn't claim that it was a a cinematic masterpiece on a par with The Third Man.

I'm a masc top. The discussion here leads me to believe this is not my kind of film.

R23 Try it out.

What is wrong with you, r20?

It wasn’t my favourite film by him, but I really liked parts of it. There’s a collection of stories from the New Yorker that inspired the film.

Curate’s egg by Wes Anderson?

I’ll rent it tout suite, r25!

The New Yorker?

What the fuck, brehs - I love Wes Anderson now!

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[quote] I'm a masc top.

The New Yorker is pretentious

The New Yorker connection makes sense as each of the stories are like many I read in the magazine - they tend to go on too long.

I was hoping DISPATCH would have the same kind of manic charm of GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, but it didn't. It was all rather joyless and arid. Jeffrey Wright was the one true bright spot - a moving, human performance against a lot of cartoon characters.

R30 You didn't like Tilda Swinton in this??

I didn't dislike her, R31. But to be honest I don't remember her from the film much, which is very unusual. I remember her from BUDAPEST HOTEL more clearly and that was a while ago.

I like most of Anderson's other films, but this just felt so self-indulgent it seemed more like a parody of a Wes Anderson film

I was a huge fan of Wes Anderson’s films—with the emphasis on was. I think I’ve watched every one of his full-length films and, at one time, thoroughly enjoyed most of them, but The French Dispatch was a turning point for me.

TFD was difficult to view as anything other than a pretentious, shallow, and extremely self-indulgent escapade, a flimsy variation on the worn-out stylistic theme that made WA famous.