( Bill Murray, of Ghostbusters and Lost in Translation), is preparing a memorial edition of the literary magazine, featuring their three best stories from the last decade. The French Dispatch follows an anthology format, as the editor of the titular European publication, one Arthur Howitzer Jr. And, rest assured, after all this time, Anderson admirers will find much to enjoy with The French Dispatch’s eccentricities, even if the story’s sumptuous sensory overload threatens to overshadow its substance from time to time. Sure, we had the animated Isle of Dogs in the interim – a mighty fine fable that still received rapturous critical acclaim and Oscar nominations for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score – but with The French Dispatch being Anderson’s live-action follow-up to his first major breakout hit on the awards circuit (to say nothing of the fact that it was set to star the Internet’s Boyfriend, Timothée Chalamet), anticipation was understandably on a different tier for this title. When The French Dispatch was originally set for release in the summer of 2020, that six-year wait after 2014’s The Grand Budapest Hotel felt insufferable – and then, COVID-19 had to add insult to injury and push the picture back even further, all the way to the fall of 2021. It’s been seven long years since we last saw a live-action feature film from one of the cinephile community’s favorite auteurs, Wes Anderson. The French Dispatch is the film equivalent of a Wes Anderson amusement park, captivating audiences with color, chaos, and countless curious characters.
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