Although this movie was undoubtedly well made, it is also pretty confusing. There is not really one overarching plot but more like 3 or 4 big sub plots in the form of recounting articles written by the French dispatch. I think that this is probably the most Wes Anderson, Wes Anderson movie. Almost every shot can be identified as one that he would choose, all the the articles stray back to themes in his previous movie, and he reuses most actors from his previous movies. This movie would be a gold mine for anyone doing an auteur theory project.
This movie was really kind of difficult to follow, it might just be that I was not paying close enough attention, but because of the way the story goes, its just really hard to follow so many different storylines after it throws you into them one after another. The individual subplots are very entertaining though, however confusing/abstract. The best part of this movie is the way that it was filmed. There is a very cool symmetry to the entire movie, and the movie itself is displayed in a more squarish shape instead of widescreen like usual. The film constantly switches between color and black and white, seemingly at random times, but it somehow still works. Also, there are random times where it switches to cartoon/comic animation when a scene would be too high budget/destructive/unable to be filmed in the Wes Anderson style. This is definitely the most experimental film of his that I have ever seen. I really don't know what to say about this movie. I can easily say that it was well made, but I'm not totally sure how much I enjoyed it. It will be interesting to see if Wes Anderson's next movie is more like this one, or more like his past films. Characters: 7/10 Shot selection: 10/10 score: 6/10 Plot: 7/10 Overall enjoyment: 6/10 Final rating: 7.2/10
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