Title - The French Dispatch
Production - American Empirical Pictures, Indian Paintbrush, Studio Babelsberg
Starring - Benicio Del Toro, Adrien Brody, Lea Seydoux, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Timothee Chalamet, Lyna Khoudri, Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Bob Balaban, Henry Winkler, Jason Schwartzman, Tony Revolori
Writer - Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Hugo Guiness, Jason Schwartzman
Director - Wes Anderson
Release - 22 October 2022
It's always hard for me to reconcile a movie as a movie when it has more than one stories in it. In the case of The French Dispatch, there were 3 major ones with another one in the background that sort of guided the rest.
The best one with the best acting was the story in the middle, performed by Frances McDormand and Timothee Chalamet. It was the most engaging, interesting, and - as mentioned - the acting was just superb. Chalamet continues to amaze because he acted beside the great McDormand and not only was he able to keep up but he even managed to draw your attention away from McDormand. Unfortuately, this story wasn't placed as the last one to close out the movie.
The last one was led by Jeffrey Wright, a simpler story but with a segment of animation worked into it as a car chase sequence (probably to save production cost). Even though it still fit into the style of Wes Anderson but the length of it took me out of the movie somewhat. And while it's still a good story and well told, I found this to be the weaker one out of the three.
The first one with Benicio Del Toro, Andrien Brody, Lea Seydoux and Tilda Swinton was very captivating as well; and I thought it was a good start to the film. Had this been one complete movie and had it been able to keep the pacing up, it would have been one of Anderson's best.
But alas, like The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs, I don't know how to rate this properly. Can it even be called a movie? Would have worked better as a limited TV series.
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