Review of The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021) by Mullon — 01 Feb 2022

I am certain this movie is a bunch of stitched together ideas from Wes Anderson's "maybe" pile that he couldn't pad out into full movie scripts. Unfortunately they are not interesting as short films either.

The four stories (or maybe six, the stories have stories), are told almost entirely through narrations like a series of outlines. Most of the time the characters are unmoving while the narration drones on, every character talks exactly the same way in a fast-paced monotone.

Any visually interesting pieces are ruined by most of the film being shot in black and white, turning it into grey sludge visually as well as audibly. The only thing that stands out are the normal cinematography tricks Anderson does in all his movies.