The French Dispatch

A magazine in a French town publishes its last issue, and the film is three of the articles plus the obituary. Anderson builds each piece as its own set: a prison painter, a student revolt, a dinner that becomes a kidnapping. The journalists are more precise than the events. Bill Murray’s editor wants the copy and then he is gone. The Searchlight trailer is the bicycle and the type. The film is a farewell to a kind of page.