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s last released feature film, The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021) the reporter Herbsaint Sazerac appeals to the "time machine of poetic license" in order to show "a day on Ennui over the course of two hundred and fifty years" (2021, 6 0 50 00 ). The sentence itself is revealing of the accumulation of time that is characteristic in the movies of the Texan author, which is then expressed in a series of four split-screen tableaux vivant, showing the past on the left half of the screen, and the future on the right (Figure 1). The past and the future shown in Figure 1 refer to the time of the diegesis, which is set in the year 1975, coincident with the last number of the magazine for which Sazerac writes and the death of his editor, Arthur Horwitz Jr. This accumulation of time, arguably present in all films of Wes Anderson from Rushmore (1998) 1 on, had nevertheless been displayed so explicitly in any of his previous films: it had always been recognizable, yet somehow hidden. Here, however, this almost magical trait of Anderson's cinema is openly present: the audience not only will recognize his handwriting, but will also see the quill of Anderson, the poet; th

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Author

Rubén de la Prida

Publisher

Informa UK Limited

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Social Sciences)