The French Dispatch

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Year:	2021
Country:	USA
Language:	English
Genre:	Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Director	Wes Anderson
Selected Cast	Timothée Chalamet as Zeffirelli
	Léa Seydoux as Simone
	Willem Dafoe as Albert the Abacus
	Adrien Brody as Julian Cadazio
	Bill Murray as Arthur Howitzer Jr.
	Frances McDormand as Lucinda Krementz
	Benicio Del Toro as Moses Rosenthaler

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zabadak 9th Oct 2022		From Regent Street Cinema mailout 07/10/21 :read: ★★★★ - THE GUARDIAN ★★★★★ - THE TIMES “Amazing visuals, lots of laughs and an A-list cast ... make Anderson’s tribute to the New Yorker a real treat” - Peter Bradshaw, THE GUARDIAN From the visionary mind of Academy Award® nominee Wes Anderson, The French Dispatch brings to life a collection of stories from the final issue of an American magazine published in a fictional 20th-century French city. With an A-List cast including Bill Murray, Elisabeth Moss, Frances McDormand, Timothée Chalamet, Benicio del Toro, Tilda Swindon, Owen Wilson, Anjelica Houston and Saoirse Ronan, The French Dispatch is a blend of stylised tableaux and deadpan ensemble acting along the lines of The Royal Tenenbaums, The Grand Budapest Hotel et al.



zabadak 20th Sep 2022		From the BFI website :happy: The French Dispatch, a high-brow magazine based in the imagined Gallic town of Blasé-sur-Ennui, has reached its end. Its founder (Bill Murray) has died and his beloved creation looks set to shut down operations. In doing so, its staff reflect nostalgically on the publication’s halcyon days, when the writers were as celebrated as the subjects they covered. There’s the art critic (Tilda Swinton) who regales with the story of a jailed painter’s (Benicio Del Toro) obsession with his muse (Léa Seydoux); a political correspondent (Frances McDormand) whose ‘current affairs’ once included a young insurgent (Timothée Chalamet) during a student protest; and the rarefied food critic (Jeffrey Wright) who becomes quite the pot-au-feu when he finds himself caught up in a kidnapping plot. Anderson is at the top of his game with this dazzling, breathlessly inventive and irrepressibly witty tribute to the New Yorker magazine and its writers. Along with his trademark shooting style – exquisitely-conceived symmetrical compositions – there’s deft use of aspect ratio and seamless monochrome-to-colour shifts. And the whole thing is carried along by regular collaborator Alexandre Desplat’s wonderful score. All in all, it’s an absolute treat. Laure Bonville



jaimeeduardo 20th Sep 2021

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