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[QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 5473311, member: 966"]
Just the opening title/credits sequence was stunning, The overhead thing, where all the typography was ‘outlined’ to read against the floor pattern. From a graphic designer’s perspective, that alone was just brilliant.

I agree with [USER=3360]chugg21[/USER] ‘s comment that the films are “Wes Andersonly” sometimes to a fault, as in Asteroid City, but this one was so very Wes Andersonly, but somehow it all contributed. Maybe it can be said that without all of that self-pastiche, he might find more human/personal/emotional resonance. He really does favour that flat affect delivery too much. Sometimes it’s funny and sometimes it just makes the entire thing more of a flat comic strip.

I do love some of his ‘tricks,’ though. For instance how a character leaves the frame and then quickly reappears in the distance—as if they can move at hyperspeed once out of view. And in The Phoenician, my favorite little bit was with the fighter pilot. Anyone else catch a Racer X reference?
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