The French Dispatch – 4

After a clever opening sending up French culture and The New Yorker, the movie devolved into four unrelated vignettes that seemed an homage to that magazine’s pieces in the ’70s that went on and on, lacking drama or point. I realize Wes Anderson is a cult taste, but I don’t see how he continues to finance such follies (see, e.g., Isle of Dogs), or how he gets top actors to play for him. In this case, that included such stalwarts as Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Benecio del Toro, Timothee Chalamet, Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Elizabeth Moss, Matthieu Amalric, Owen Wilson and a voice-over from Wallace Shawn.

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