The French Dispatch

The French Dispatch

The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.

  • Released: 2021-10-21
  • Runtime: 108 minutes
  • Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
  • Stars: Bill Murray, Benicio del Toro, Frances McDormand, Jeffrey Wright, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Owen Wilson, Timothée Chalamet, Léa Seydoux, Mathieu Amalric, Lyna Khoudri, Steve Park, Liev Schreiber, Elisabeth Moss, Edward Norton, Willem Dafoe, Lois Smith, Saoirse Ronan, Christoph Waltz, Cécile de France, Guillaume Gallienne, Jason Schwartzman, Tony Revolori, Rupert Friend, Henry Winkler, Bob Balaban, Hippolyte Girardot, Anjelica Huston, Denis Ménochet, Alex Lawther, Vincent Lacoste, Benjamin Lavernhe, Vincent Macaigne, Félix Moati, Wallace Wolodarsky, Fisher Stevens, Griffin Dunne, Stéphane Bak, Anjelica Bette Fellini, Lily Taïeb, Mohamed Belhadjine, Nicolas Avinée, Winsen Ait Hellal, Toheeb Jimoh, Larry Pine, Tom Hudson, Jarvis Cocker, Bruno Delbonnel, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Damien Bonnard, Morgane Polanski, Antonia Desplat, Sam Haygarth, Pablo Pauly
  • Director: Wes Anderson
 Comments
  • pulpficat - 12 May 2024
    A Quirky Tribute to Journalism with a Side of Wes Anderson Charm
    Directed by the one and only Wes Anderson, The French Dispatch is like a love letter to journalism, served with a generous dollop of Anderson's signature style. It's whimsical, it's visually stunning, and it's chock-full of quirky characters and offbeat humor.

    With names like Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, and Timothée Chalamet, just to name a few, you know you're in for a treat. The performances are pitch-perfect, with each actor bringing their own unique flair to their respective roles.

    The film is structured as a series of vignettes, each based on a story from the fictional French Dispatch magazine. From tales of art forgery to political intrigue to the misadventures of a renowned chef, each segment is like its own miniature film, complete with Anderson's trademark attention to detail. It's like a feast for the eyes, with every frame meticulously crafted and bursting with color and creativity. It's like watching a living, breathing work of art unfold before your very eyes.

    The storytelling might be a bit unconventional, and some viewers might find Anderson's style a tad too quirky for their tastes. But if you're a fan of his previous work or just appreciate good cinema, then The French Dispatch is definitely worth a watch.
  • PeterMasberg - 7 October 2023
    A beautiful, deeply humane and lovable movie
    In this increasingly digital times we didn't know we needed a Wes Anderson homage to journalism and print and other analogue pleasures like art, political theory and food but thank God here we are. In typical Wes Anderson-manner - symmetry, ensemble cast, absurdity, more innovative cinematic ideas per frame than most directors have in a lifespan - the film tells three different stories all connected to France and a New Yorker-like magazine covering the real important aspects of our existence (art, political theory, food) and thus celebrating life. The first story is the most interesting - and got Benicio Del Toro, Adrien Brody and Léa Seydoux! - which is not really good for the overall balance of the film but the middle story has Frances McDormand and the last story has Jeffrey Wright (the stand-out performance of the film) so all is good. A beautiful, deeply humane and lovable movie.