Wes Anderson\u2019s latest film, \u201cThe French Dispatch\u201d\u2014finally arriving in theaters after a year and a half covid delay\u2014is a wistful comedy nostalgic for the end of an era\u2014well, two eras\u2014the postwar New Yorker magazine under founder Harold Ross and his successor editor William Shawn and the end of a postwar France, as imagined from the photos of Robert Doisneau and the French New Wave films of Francois Trauffault and Jean-Luc Goddard and the like. It\u2019s about a kind of longing for a romantic, rustic France in the recovery and lull after World War II. And it\u2019s about missing the flinty, elegant post-World War II Americaness that The New Yorker at its peak embodied.<\/p>\n