“The French Dispatch,” about writers at a midcentury magazine based on The New Yorker, is set in the fictional town of Ennui-sur-Blasé and was filmed in Angoulême, France. As soon as I had Bill Murray, I wanted him on the next one. “But as soon as Owen Wilson and I started making a movie, well, I wanted Owen to be involved with the other movies I would do. “I don’t know who gravitated toward whom,” Anderson said, in a voice message sent from the production of his 11th film, outside Madrid. Along with his fastidious and vibrant visual sense and staccato pacing, his company of free spirits has become his signature. But Wes Anderson’s 10th movie, “The French Dispatch,” was made in much the same way, and with much the same cast, as many of the features that preceded it. It’s his first film set in France, and the first done as an anthology.
