Desplechin vs. Anderson: "Fantastic" family men.
Wes Anderson's "Fantastic Mr. Fox" (which is, yes, fantastic) begins its platform release domestically two Fridays from now, but it's already out in the UK -- complete with a "Fantastic Mr. Fox Happy Meal" -- and the publicity mill is already grinding. One of the cooler interviews Anderson's done is with French director Arnaud Desplechin (recently ordained the future of cinema by Alain Resnais at a New York Film Festival press conference) -- though, per Interview magazine's usual form, it's more of a curious dialogue between equals than a straight-up interview. They talk about Proust, argue about which directors influence them and scratch each other's backs a little. Desplechin tells a really morbid Hitchcock anecdote. What no one mentions the entire time is the thematic overlap Anderson and Desplechin share, the entire reason someone might've sicced them on each other in the first place. The tagline of "The Royal Tenenbaums"...
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