After three years of waiting, the fantastic Wes Anderson returns with a long-awaited work. The French Dispatch is enticing: everything from the poster, through the casting to the trailer, makes you want to go for it. The incessant postponements have only served this growing expectation, perhaps a little too much…
A cinema that runs out
To love Anderson is not only to love his films, it is to admire a universe, an atmosphere as aesthetic as poetic… Shots of elegant symmetry, pastel tones and striking characters, this is the recipe of the director. But by dint of always preparing the same cake, we end up getting tired. Although sublime, Anderson's paw does not change, it remains the same and is reinforced in an aestheticism that already pleases so much but is exhausted.
The proof is with this 5-star cast that includes actors worn to the rope by Wes Anderson. The figures of Tilda Swinton, Adrien Brody or Bill Murray are once again present and have now made an eternal place in the director's films.
The French Dispatch: A film that leaves us hungry
The French Dispatch leaves us perplexed, how dare to condemn a work of Wes Anderson and its comforting universe which, until now, were unanimous? Everything looks the same and after so much waiting while we hoped for something new, exceptional and especially something to surprise us, we fall into an infernal spiral in which the director has locked himself.
A format that makes our heart swing
It is certainly reluctantly that we can say that this last film does not live up to expectations. However, the experience of a Wes Anderson in theaters is not to be neglected and The French Dispatch is still a very good film, especially thanks to its form. The journalistic structure and the three adventures in one allow us to explore the director's cinema from top to bottom, the different color palettes, the different formats and processes, such as the animation that comes to take part in the filmed story.
However, the film passes quickly, too fast and unfortunately does not leave us time to grasp every reference and every element present in the film.
