2023 · comedy
The Rat Catcher
Directed by Wes Anderson17m2023
In an English village, a reporter and a mechanic listen to a ratcatcher explain his clever plan to outwit his prey.
Our read: The Rat Catcher (2023) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, kinetic, measured comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- inventive
- cold
- signature
- intimate
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