Towards an appreciation of, or adequate response to, the riches of Wes Anderson's sheer genius in The French Dispatch (2021)

How even enumerate the riches of Wes Anderson's sheer genius in The French Dispatch (2021) ?

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29 November

Towards an appreciation of, or adequate response to, the riches of Wes Anderson's sheer genius in The French Dispatch (2021)

Mythically set (any more than there's a Zubrowka) in Ennui sur Blasé, Wes Anderson's @french_dispatch (2021) is LOL funny, but no more in France than when he re- or dislocates in Japan in @isleofdogsmovie (2018) or in #moonrisekingdom (2012) [New England] !#JamesThurber

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Knowing what he intends, Anderson also invokes @NewYorker's Harold Ross [Thurber's The Years with Ross], E. B. White (sometimes a co-writer with Thurber, e.g. Is Sex Necessary? Or, Why You Feel the Way You Do (1929)), even Hannah Arendt, in telling of one thing by another.

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'My lobby boy !' :https://t.co/6EQcG7EtTn

Grand Budapest as GB :https://t.co/21rcGH09VM

Or changed passports, just as Gustave H. [Fiennes] sticks up for Zero Moustafa [Tony Revolori] - proudly, as former refugee from violence, saviour, and brother :https://t.co/esN6AnjN23 pic.twitter.com/PyGL6TARBh

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