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+ +The french dispatch follows several different stories and perspectives surrounding the authors of a magazine based in kansas, but about +a small town in France. The film is framed in sections similar to how a magazine like The New Yorker is divided and each section is +stylistically different from the last to reflect the style of the author.
+I found this movie very charming. I am a sucker for Wes Anderson films and this, like The Grand Budapest Hotel, strikes a perfect cord with +me both stylistically and substantively. The movie is very funny without many outright spoken jokes. It is visually pleasing in the standard +Wes Anderson way. Each individual story is also engaging and the binding narrative about the death of the magazine’s editor pulls things +together just well enough that the movie as a whole feels coherent.
+I would recommend this to anyone who is already a Wes Anderson fan, but I wouldn’t necessarily suggest this if you are new to Wes Anderson. +It is very stylized and if you don’t like the style you would hate the film. It also has a lot of absurdist humor which is not for everyone. +As my rating reflects, I really enjoyed this film so it gets a general recommendation from me as long as you consider my hesitations about +style. I think I might recommend watching another Wes Anderson film first and then, if you liked that, watch this one next!
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