![]() His magazine soon eclipsed the newspaper that had contained it-and became legendary as well for Arthur’s loving and eccentric treatment of its even more eccentric writing staff. Arthur convinced his father, his hometown’s newspaper publisher, to stuff his journal into the Sunday edition of the Evening Sun. He’s a plainspoken native of Liberty, Kansas-said to be just 10 miles from the geographical center of the United States-who began the magazine while on a trip to France. Though he’s lived in France for 50 years, editor Arthur Howitzer Jr. ![]() ![]() As the movie begins, the year is 1975, and the editor and founder of The French Dispatch has died, leaving a will stipulating that his literary creation is to end its existence along with him. The French Dispatch is about the assembly and contents of the final issue of a magazine very much like the New Yorker -only this fictional version is published in a French city called Ennui-sur-Blasé. And when you peel back the layers of irony and whimsy, you might find that, unexpectedly, The French Dispatch is a surprising celebration of Middle American mid-century cultural enthusiasm and its triumph over old-style European pretension. Wes Anderson’s almost indescribable new movie is a takeoff of a spoof of a parody of a tribute of a salute. The French Dispatch is bananas, and that’s what’s wonderful about it-when it is wonderful, which isn’t all the time.
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