![]() ![]() They are there to stay, a testament to the artist, the life and its sentence, and the guard who gives him a reason to serve his time. The final paintings are done as frescos, painted on the concrete walls deep in the prison interior. Cadazio berates him and promotes him as a homicidal maniac, and when the painter completes his masterpiece collection, the madness is revealed as the true genius. Rosenthaler becomes an art world sensation for his mental illness and violence as much as he does for his impressionistic visions. Cadazio wants a biography as a patron, which is as much collateral as the paint, egg yolks, and prison soap brushed over tarp. She is an electrifying muse and knows how to jump start his cables.Īnderson is also making comments on the construction of an artist. Seydoux conjures her inner Morticia Addams by reminding Moses that torture is Simone’s job. He fills in all the loose doodles of his subject, compulsively objectifying Rosenthaler as a truly tortured artist. After all, Rosenthaler is a man whose secondary motivation is the terror of the Splatter Brigade, other jailed artists who taunt each other to greatness with threats of grievous harm.Īnderson, who also made Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Darjeeling Limited, and Moonrise Kingdom, is an obsessive. Cadazio makes Rosenthaler one of the world’s premiere visionaries in the art world, based on “one small scribbly overrated picture.” The painter with a 50-year sentence is confined to deadlines for the first time in his life but manages to keep the art dealer hostage with promises of perfection. The two fellow convicts then proceed to imprison each other. ![]() “All artists sell all their work, it’s what makes you an artist,” the art dealer explains to the paint-splattered inmate. Rosenthaler is reluctant to sell the painting, Simone Naked, Cell Block J Hobby Room, when Julian Cadazio (Brody’s dealer who’s briefly incarcerated for the white-collar crime of sales tax evasion) sweetly bribes his way into the Maximum Security for the Mentally Deranged unit. There is a woman to be seen there in the painting, but she is as elusive as the smile on the Mona Lisa. But his vision is interpretive, and the rendition is abstract. Rosenthaler could paint her as she stands, perfectly rendered on a canvas as recognizable as a traditional still life, or a sparrow hastily scrawled with a burnt matchbook to prove his gifts. She is his muse, standing in impossible postures for hours while he captures her innermost beauty. He beheaded two bartenders in a psychotic rage, the first “by accident” and the second in self-defense.Ĭonfined to the psychiatric ward, and often fastened in a straitjacket, in Ennui Prison, Rosenthaler had put down his brushes when incarcerated, and only asked for art supplies after falling in love with the guard Simone ( Léa Seydoux). ![]() In it, Moses Rosenthaler (Benicio del Toro, with Tony Revolori as the younger character in flashbacks) is a genius artist serving a life sentence for a double homicide. The first vignette, “The Concrete Masterpiece,” is presented as an art lecture by French Dispatch magazine staff writer J.K.L. But the opening sequence of The French Dispatch proves any local can be worthy of mention in The New Yorker’s “The Talk of the Town” column. ![]() You might think nothing happens there, and when it does, no one cares. In the film, the fictional French Dispatch magazine started in Liberty, Kansas and is now published in the sardonically-named fictional town of Ennui-sur-Blasé, France. Liebling, James Baldwin, and Rosamond Bernier, it was idiosyncratic and utterly original. The French Dispatch is Anderson’s homage to The New Yorker during the magazine’s heyday under founder/editor Harold Ross, fictionalized in the film as Arthur Howitzer, Jr., portrayed eccentrically by Bill Murray. The first vignette in the three-story film exhibits how commerce in the art world is a cut-throat business, especially when it’s personal. Adrien Brody plays a similar art curator to those at Christie’s in Wes Anderson’s anthology film, The French Dispatch. Van Gogh was an unknown artist at the time. The artist created it after dropping a package off at a brothel for a woman named Rachel, telling her to “guard this object with your life.” That was in December 1888. Vincent van Gogh’s painting Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear sold for $71.5 million at a November 1998 Christie’s auction. ![]()
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