French Dispatch (2021)

Where to start? Wes Anderson movies are full of intricate teeny tiny details that all fit together in an improbable way and at the end of it all I am not at all sure that I understand where he was going with it all, but I have enjoyed the ride. That is true to the nth degree with this movie, where it is like a fire hose of details in each and every scene and they just keep coming. It was filmed in Angoulême, which is a French town that is small as well as typically charming, in southwestern France, and that is just one tiny detail that is a clue to the film as a whole. Anderson, who lives in France, called this a love letter to journalism, and the cast is, as is typical of his flims, jam packed with stars. The story line is that the last volume of a magazien is being published and the audience is going through the article in real time. Each one is a bit bizarre, and at the end there is no effort to make sense of it as a whole, but you are left with a pleasant feeling none-the-less.