![]() The third is a story of a kidnapping, told through the perspective of Roebuck Wright (Jeffrey Wright, giving more than a nod to James Baldwin) while appearing as a guest on a talk show (Liev Schreiber plays the host). The second is a love story about a pair of student revolutionaries, Zeffirelli (Timothée Chalamet, a natural fit in Anderson's world) and Juliette (Lyna Khoudri), and the journalist (Frances McDormand) who comes between them (and often corrects their grammar). ![]() The first is about Moses Rosenthaler (Benicio del Toro), an incarcerated painter and homicidal psychopath (in the most sensitive, Andersonian terms) who falls for his prison guard, Simone ("No Time to Die's" Léa Seydoux). In tribute to their leader, the paper's staff pulls together a final issue, repurposing three stories from its past. (Anderson regular Bill Murray), has just passed away as the film opens. The story is told through the French Dispatch of the title, a foreign bureau of a Kansas newspaper whose editor, Arthur Howitzer Jr. ![]() Here, his approach complements the narrative, a tribute to esoterica which unfolds as three short stories, set in a fictional town in France (it's called Ennui, for crying out loud) in the mid-20th century. Anderson's sweet, daffy, highly specific and unabashedly high-minded valentine to journalism through the lens of a fictional French newspaper is Anderson's most Wes Anderson-y movie to date: there's not an object or a single hair on the heads of any of his actors that are out of place in any of his painstakingly perfected shots. ![]()
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