The French Dispatch

I loved the royal tenenbaums. And quite enjoyed the darjeeling express and budapest hotel. But I couldn't love this. Takes far too much effort for the viewer to extract a tiny bit of gentle hit and miss satire. Its not worth the effort. It's overwhelming. But not in a good way. Dialogue too fast, everything else too slow. I just wasnt made to care. That's 2 hours of my life I won't get back. 2 hours of hoping this would somehow turn out to be worthwhile of my time. Maybe that was wes anderson's intention... to take the p (or take the mick) out of us viewers, and hollywood, as he takes the gentle p out of the art world in one of the shorts. He's laughing all the way to the bank. I waited for the viewer to be let in on the joke, but I think he's serious, he's been taken in by all the smoke-blowing over the years. And that makes me sad. Thank goodness I hadn't paid money to feel bored, frustrated, angered, and depressed. Boring, in summary. Beautiful but boring. The individual components may be vaguely interesting as stand alone shorts, but unbearable as a feature length movie. Pretentious and will be loved by the pretentious. Even the music grated on me. I wish I'd stopped watching and not battled through to the end.

This was a amazing show of artistic story telling can be hard to follow exactly where or what is going if you have a loss of concentration (so pay attention there are wonderful humours parts) but it is great Wes Anderson production.

Esto es cine de autor bien hecho. Jamás me acostumbraré a esto. El Anderson hizo su película como él quería. Es una buena jugada. Poca pasta y mucha influencia con el estudio a la hora de hacer la peli. Seré directo, no me ha gustado. Está más o menos bien, es decir… El que esté acostumbrado a esto pues la va a disfrutar, esta es la primera vez que veo una peli de este tipo. Simplemente no me acostumbré. La primera historia fácilmente puede ser la mejor, y el final animado hace más ligero el clímax y por lo menos sales hapi.

wes anderson is probably my biggest blind spot in film, which is surprising since his style and production design are something i know i will enjoy. besides this, the only other film of his i’ve seen is isle of dogs, but hopefully this year i can change that. the stories here decrease in quality as they progress, but the craft is consistent throughout. being in the architecture field myself, those section cut views of buildings & airplanes really impressed me.

Loved the Grand Budapest Hotel, but this movie? Nicely filmed but the story is rather meager. Left before the end of the movie although I had nothing to do. Disappointing.

Feel good movie. The humour might not be for everyone. Little skits with incredible methodical cinematography and perfect acting. Like an impressionist painting, Anderson showed us characters and leaves us to feel and interpret its imagery.

I understand my opinion here is unique, but I absolutely loved The French Dispatch. It’s not groundbreaking in any sense, but it’s exactly what it’s intended to be: entertaining.

Hands down Anderson's worst attempt. This is kind of like when Spielberg made that War of the Worlds remake as his one flop. The French Dispatch is a collection of unrelated vignettes; no plot involved. Each one is arguably terrible- decent, at best. Even in the face of COVID I wanted to like it but let's be honest: it wasn't designed to be liked.

Aren’t films supposed to have an intrigue ? Maybe Wes Anderson should stick to pretty photography.

This film was very good. Entertaining. Fun. I enjoyed it.