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French dispatch4/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Your favorite movie of the year isn’t bad because it didn’t get an Oscar nod, and you are not a bad person for thinking “The Power of the Dog” (with its 12 nominations) was just okay. The Oscars ceremony is an exciting annual event, but it’s not qualified to decide anything except which movies old people in the film industry like the most. These are the folks who gave “The Green Book” a best picture award. Each year, the Oscars ceremony is filled with multimillion dollar influencing campaigns and people who voted for “12 Years a Slave” even though they didn’t actually watch it. As much as the academy passes its members as the arbiters of cinematic quality, it doesn’t consist of infallible film appreciators with tastes surpassing those of the ordinary filmgoing plebeian. I won’t pretend like it isn’t, but is the academy truly the authority on quality? Does an Oscar nomination really mean that a film is the best in its category? I know that the members of the academy are only human, and some mistakes are bound to be made, but the fact that “Don’t Look Up” got nominated for best picture and “The French Dispatch” didn’t even get nominated for production design is, without any exaggeration, a travesty.Įxcept, in all honesty, getting snubbed by the academy doesn’t mean that “The French Dispatch” wasn’t one of the best films of last year. “Dune” got nominated 10 different times, and Timothée Chalamet has way cooler hair in this movie than he did in that one. As much as I adore it, I can somewhat understand why it wouldn’t be everyone’s number one choice for a best picture award.īut to not get nominated in any category? That’s a crime. It does not concern itself with realism or strong overarching cohesion. ![]() I understand that this film isn’t everyone’s thing. “‘Dune’ got nominated 10 differe nt times, and Timothée Chalamet has way cooler hair in this movie than he did in that one.” Gerrit Punt PO '24 The film is absolutely packed with fantastic performances. Perhaps even more entrancing than the film’s visual panache is its large and eccentric cast of characters, from Owen Wilson’s sprightly cyclist, Herbsaint Sazerac, to Timothée Chalamet’s wild-haired, manifesto-writing teenage rebel. In typical Anderson style, every single frame of this film is a meticulous work of art. Sometimes it’s a vibrant, cartoon chase sequence. Sometimes the film is in journalistic, inky black and white. Only in Anderson’s France are city-wide revolutions decided by chess games and annual snowfalls measured in the total number of snowflakes.Įach of these three stories are filled to the brim with whimsically intricate visuals and gorgeous set pieces. Through its creative, journalistic framing, “The French Dispatch” focuses less of its energy on telling a large overarching story and more on exploring the setting and denizens of its impossibly charming world. (Bill Murray).Ĭontaining the stories of a (literally) tortured master painter in prison for double homicide, an odd romance between a meddling journalist and a young revolutionary and a writer who finds himself wrapped up in a caper involving a kidnapping and a master chef, “The French Dispatch” manages to fit a lot into its one hour and 48 minute runtime. The film consists of three featured articles, along with a brief introduction to the film’s setting through a jaunty cycling column and an obituary for the magazine’s expatriated founder, Arthur Howitzer Jr. It consists of an anthology of very loosely connected short stories, each one an article in the final issue of “The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun,” an American-based magazine headquartered in the charmingly seedy French city of Ennui-sur-Blasé. “The French Dispatch” is the 10th feature film from director Wes Anderson. This is not a threat.)īut, before I do any dismantling, I suppose I should actually dive into “The French Dispatch.” Why do I love this movie so much, and why is it such a shame that it didn’t get a nomination? My favorite film of 2021 didn’t get a single nomination, so I’ve taken it upon myself to personally dismantle the Academy Awards. What better time than now to look back at the films of last year and talk about our favorite movies getting the nominations we hoped they would? Right? The movie was released in theaters last October, making this a pretty belated review, but it’s Oscars season. ![]() I’m going to go ahead and say it: I love “The French Dispatch.” “The French Dispatch” follows three loosely connected stories about an American-based magazine located in France. ![]()
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