![]() The French Dispatch comes to cinemas in the US on 24 July, and then to the UK on 28 August. Wes Andersons 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. Ladies and gentlemen, start the engines of your charmingly old-fashioned motorbikes – a major new work from a major artist is almost here. And as in The Grand Budapest Hotel, the elaborate multi-tier narrative will skitter across the twentieth century to chart change on an epochal scale. As in Isle of Dogs, an uprising from a faction of politically active young people will play a major role. 6:15am PT Wes Anderson’s ‘The French Dispatch’ Debuts First Trailer By Klaritza Rico Searchlight Pictures dropped the first trailer for Wes Anderson ’s The French. ![]() As in The Life Aquatic, the film focuses on a large creative collaboration (a ready metaphor for a film set). What’s for certain is that Anderson’s sticking with his pet themes and devices this time around. One might assume the black-and-white segments would be the reportage within the film, but assorted characters appear in both styles, so it’s difficult to say at present. In the third, an expert chef (Stephen Park) caters to the palates of the local police force as a kidnapping case unfolds before their very eyes.Īs the whirlwind trailer whisks us through those stories and the outer world containing them, it flits between aspect ratios and color schemes. ![]() In another, a student revolutionary (a floppy-haired, nude, bath-taking Timothée Chalamet) finds himself at the center of a massive social upheaval. In one, a world-renowned art dealer ( Adrien Brody) comes to make purchase of a painting created by a death-row prisoner. The film jumps back and forth between the universe of their bustling office, and the stories-within-the-story presented by the various articles to be included in their latest edition. The harried editor ( Bill Murray) rushes to complete a new issue while tending to the many eccentric personalities in his orbit, from food writer Roebuck Wright ( Jeffrey Wright) to politics reporter Lucinda Krementz ( Frances McDormand) to temperamental profile writer Herbsaint Salzerac ( Owen Wilson). In an article from that very publication yesterday, Anderson confessed to having been an obsessive collector of back issues since his younger years. The film follows the operations of the French headquarters of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun, a stylish and witty American journal with more than a passing resemblance to the New Yorker. There’s no time to lose, so let’s dig in: It follows Anderon’s 2018 Isle of Dogs.Wes Anderson has done us the service of breaking up the workweek with an early look at his upcoming film, The French Dispatch, prior to a likely premiere at the Cannes Film Festival (which gave his Moonrise Kingdom a friendly home in 2012). (Murray) was inspired by the literary magazine’s co-founder, Harold Ross.ĭispatch was co-written by Anderson, Schwartzman, Roman Coppola and Hugo Guinness. The film was inspired by Anderson’s love of The New Yorker and Arthur Howitzer Jr. It stars Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, La Seydoux, Frances McDormand, Timothe Chalamet, Lyna Khoudri. 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. Beloved actors from Anderson’s previous films can also be seen throughout - Swinton, McDormand, Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, Adrien Brody, Edward Norton, Willem Dafoe, Bob Balaban, Anjelica Huston and so on. THE FRENCH DISPATCH Official Trailer Searchlight Pictures. The film also features Chalamet’s usual co-star Saoirse Ronan, as well as Jeffrey Wright and Elisabeth Moss. The trailer then cycles through various stories that the Dispatch is working on: an eccentric artist (Benicio del Toro) and his in-demand works, the May ’68 occupations and one of its student protestors (Timothée Chalamet), and then a kidnapping scheme that seems to involve a chef. Wilson responds, “I think it’s charming!” Which story he’s referring to, we don’t know. asks Owen Wilson’s character, Sazerac, as the latter fixes a bike in the newsroom. “You don’t think it’s too seedy this time?” Murray’s Arthur Howitzer Jr. Set in Ennui-sur-Blasé, a fictional city in France, the clip opens with Tilda Swinton’s narration as she explains the genesis of the Dispatch: “A factual weekly report on the subjects of politics, the arts - high and low - and diverse stories of human interest.” ![]()
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