The French Dispatch was added to HBOMax last night. Watched it but can't really remember it because I was half awake, but from what I do remember, I loved it. Your typical Wes Anderson film with beautiful settings, eccentric characters, and a pretty good story. Going to rewatch it tonight when I'm actually focused.
just finished it earlier--outstanding...admittedly, i love everything he does, and feel like i say this after each new one, but maybe my favorite...i don't know though, i still consider The Royal Tenenbaum's to be his best...maybe...maybe not...
...funny coincidence too, in one of the lit classes i'm teaching this semester we're in the middle of a section of the semester on "Urbanism, Industrialism, and Realism" where we just finished dealing with poems in Charles Baudelaire's
Paris Spleen (where would any talk of
ennui and Paris be without at least a gesture in Baudelaire's direction?), and when we come back from break the week after next, we will be reading James Baldwin, especially "Notes of a Native Son"...