Forever Rushmore

The French Dispatch is never-never land for knowledge workers

People have been brushing Wes Anderson off as twee for years. (Variety even used a “twee factor” metric to rank his films.) I’m sympathetic; he does have that tic of composing shots like cute little dioramas, and sometimes his challenges to consensus realism fall flat, breaking rather than weaving a spell. (After the lame gun battle to “Raw Power” by th…