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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Replying to @lionel_trolling
I feel like maybe it's not aiming for greatness so much as entertainment enriched by a dash of melancholy.
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and its a little annoying and drags in parts, but its not a terrible movie and is definitely enjoyable
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I do have mixed feelings about turning some weighty history into circus farce & the gestures towards deeper emotional engagement don't always work & seem at times merely gestural. But as a confection, it offers a lot of pleasure.
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Of course artists have the right to play with history, turn it into farce, etc. But Anderson wants to have it both ways: to have history as cartoon but also gesture or invoke some of the intense emotions of historical pain. Doesn't quite work.
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