The Wit of Wes Anderson

If you spent any time on TikTok this year, sooner or later, you would have been exposed to the #WesAndersonchallenge. This consisted of people attempting to depict their average day in as deadpan and stylised a fashion as possible, in homage to the American filmmaker Wes Anderson’s distinctive style; the vast majority of videos were soundtracked by Alexandre Desplat’s jaunty, harpsichord-led theme to Anderson’s 2021 film The French Dispatch.