Wes anderson french dispatch reviews11/16/2023 Set in the fictional French town of (wait for it) Ennui-sur-Blasé, populated mostly by English-speaking Hollywood faces, and dressed entirely according to Anderson’s signature American-preppy principles - perhaps accessorized with a beret here and there - it’s a fantasy of Gallic elegance, eccentricity and ooh-la-la to make “Amelie” look like “La Haine.” theaters in October.)Īs you might just glean from the title, it’s a film about France for viewers not overly attached to authentic standards of Frenchness and thus - or so my friend would say - the optimal film for the festival’s balmy coastal melting pot. (Initially scheduled for release last summer from Searchlight, the film will now hit U.S. Cannes may or may not be France, but I’m always happy to be there regardless, and the rosé - so long as you steer clear of anything pinker than a bad sunburn - tastes just fine to me.īut I did think of his little tirade only a few minutes into “The French Dispatch,” the (very) long-awaited new divertissement from Wes Anderson, which premiered in competition at Cannes tonight, a little past the halfway mark of the festival. It’s like Disneyland Paris with better clothes.” He wrinkled his nose to underscore his distaste, before dealing the most damning of killer blows. “They put on a big show of being French and purist about it, but the whole thing is defined by the people who go there. “Cannes isn’t France,” a French friend once told me in a brisk tone of airy disdain that was, in notable contrast, the very essence of France itself.
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