IN COMPETITION – With a host of stars, Wes Anderson reinvents a desert to deliver a retro-futuristic fantasy. A film similar to its previous ones, but better.
Wes Anderson always makes the same movie. The American filmmaker has already been entitled to this lazy criticism and there is no doubt that we will serve him again on a seafood platter. It is not false.
About The French Dispatch the previous one, we wrote two years ago: “Wes Anderson remains faithful to the recipe that made him successful. Realism, very little for him. Cinema is a magic lantern, an inexhaustible reservoir of fiction. He uses all his panoply (voice-over, embedded stories, split screen, animation and score by Alexandre Desplat) for a parodic tribute to the New Yorker. »