So Bottle Rocket cemented Wes Anderson as a master craftsman, but Royal Tenenbaums, Life Aquatic, and Darjeeling Limited set the tone for his characters and his overall style. Add in two cartoons in Mr. Fox and Isle of Dogs and it shows how his last three live action films are....live action cartoons. Moonrise Kingdom and Grand Budapest Hotel were doses of elevated reality, films that seemed like stories being told with the same quirky characters but in more over the top situations. The French Dispatch follows that formula but is his most unhinged yet. It seems every Wes Anderson film gets odder & odder. This is pure post modern Wes Anderson, all his tropes & techniques are on full blast. A whimsical anthology of dead bodies in the water, murderous artists, political youth movements, and a madcap car chase. His style oozes in every frame and every word is poetic. This might be his most bonkers and his most deranged.
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