Review of The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021) by Nickthecritick — 23 Apr 2022

Arthur Howitzer Jr., son of the founder and owner of the Liberty (Kansas) newspaper "The Evening Sun", convinced his father years earlier to finance a Sunday supplement and set up the editorial office in Ennui-sur-Blasé. Expatriate to France, "Picnic" becomes "The French Dispatch" and covers the news of the country 'with style'. Because around his desk, Horowitzer Jr. gathered the best journalists of his time. Archaeologists of the newspaper, 'chase' on the field the subject that has been assigned to him: a student protest that turns into idyll, the investigation of a commissioner on the trail of his son's kidnappers, a psychotic artist and convict in love with his guardian, the obituary of Arthur Howitzer Jr, who put down the pen. And the last issue will be an anthology of articles, the best, dedicated to him.

Film as usual, touch of interesting shots, but with this film Wes Anderson begins to repeat itself a bit without offering any new and interesting ideas. A film that smacks of already seen and that adds nothing to the good filmography of the Texan director.