My most reactionary opinion of the year is that The French Dispatch is a delightful confection. If you accept that it's not a movie about the New York but rather about the idea of the New Yorker (or the mythos of The New Yorker) much of the animus against the movie becomes moot
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France’s social/political scene has long been divorced from the American experience? combined with England’s cultural might in shared neoliberal turn it makes sense?. Previously the student revs inspired much of the francophilie movement - 60s American student movements etc
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Not to mention America’s stance towards France became openly antagonistic after 9/11 a trend that hasn’t seemed to totally disappear
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