The French Dispatch

Got a ticket to see Wes Anderson's latest, The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun, or The French Dispatch for short, under GSC's International Screens banner (which is mainly for the more indie titles). There were more people in the room probably because it was the last screening of the day and there's only a handful of International Screens rooms around the country. 

The French Dispatch brings to life a collection of stories from the final issue of an American magazine published in a fictional 20th-century French city.

• For a movie called The French Dispatch set in a fake place in France, there's no shortage of native French-speaking actors in this. 
• Love the toponym Ennui-sur-Blasé LOL 
• If Timothée Chalamet can also speak French, why didn't he in this? It was a bit odd that he and Frances McDormand were the only prominently English-speaking people in the piece.
• Laughed so hard when Rupert Friend showed his face. No, it wasn't Orlando Bloom, but I get why anyone would be confused. 
• Am I the only one that thought of Nescafe every time the name Nescaffier was uttered? 
• I bet most of those people (not just Bill Murray and Saoirse Ronan) only did a few days work on this, going by the screen time they got. 
• The animated sequences were pretty funny, also cos there's no way you can get the actors to act out the chase scene in the third piece without injury. 

The whole movie (especially the premise) was so bananas, it was hard not to laugh at the funny stuff. Because it's a Wes Anderson film, there's also a lot of returning players (as well as new ones) in this. 

The look and feel of the fictional magazine was SO inspired by The New Yorker, it shows. 

Dunno whether to laugh or feel bad when I saw an unker sleeping (in a fetal position, which is quite a feat, but understandable considering how nice the seats are) in his seat a couple rows behind me when the movie was over. 

Shortest movie I've seen in the cinema over the last few months (at under 2 hours), but they also cut stuff out, so maybe watch it elsewhere for repeated viewing?