Making a COVID-delayed premiere at Cannes, the film tells uneven tall tales with Frances McDormand, Bill Murray, Timothée Chalamet and Jeffrey Wright.
Anderson practically specializes in attractive, magpie-spirited fakery. And it’s nothing if not the right kind of film to program midfestival, when those of us who have been watching up to half a dozen films per day on limited sleep and a diet of wine and pastry are starting to get a little bleary-eyed.
And yet, as Anderson’s ornate triptych of mini-capers unfolded before me, I found myself wishing I was having more fun. Fans of the director will find all the usual surface pleasures of his work fastidiously in place: immaculate, era-straddling production design preserved in the crystalline symmetry of his compositions, an A-plus-list ensemble of actors on droll, freewheeling form, and a spritzy jazz piano score that immediately and insistently carves out space in your brain.
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