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(February 16, 2020) Original
(September 5, 2021) New Release Date (changed from 7/24/20)
(October 17, 2021) New Posters (#2-#18)

Release Date:

October 22, 2021

Synopsis:

From IMDb: “A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in “The French Dispatch” magazine.”

Poster Rating: B / C+ / B (4) / B- (12)

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Review: (#1) Designed to look like an old child’s book, the design features a lot of details and should appeal to fans of the Wes Anderson aesthetic.

(#2) A lot of characters forced into a single frame with a bland backdrop and unappealing details. (#3-#6) This series of posters are designed like an antiquated travel journal with lots of details and quite a bit of information about the characters. (#7-#18) Several of these character designs look a bit like the cover of a Saturday Evening Post and that may well be the intention, though some of them don’t quite fit the theme as well as they should.

Trailer Rating: B

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Review: Wes Anderson hasn’t been this unhinged in awhile, so it should appeal to his myriad fans, but won’t return any he might have picked up with Grand Budapest to the theater. It just looks too bizarre.

Oscar Prospects:

Wes Anderson is now in the Oscar family, so his films should continue to do better with the Academy. The only problem is that this looks far more esoteric than his major live action Oscar predecessor The Grand Budapest Hotel, which might minimize who will find the film of interest.

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