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The French Dispatch
Overview
The French Dispatch is an American magazine being published in the French City of Ennui-sur-Blasé. When its editor-in-chief, Arthur Howitzer Jr. (Bill Murray), dies, the staff decides to publish one last edition, highlighting the best stories to come out of the magazine over its 10-year run. These stories involve Moses Rosenthaler (Benicio del Toro), an artist jailed for double homicide; a kidnapping solved by Lieutenant Nescafier (Stephen Park), a chef and police officer; and student riots. Written and directed by Wes Anderson.
Awards:
Main Cast & Crew:
Wes Anderson - Director
Tilda Swinton
Frances McDormand
Bill Murray
Jeffrey Wright
Adrien Brody
Benicio Del Toro
Owen Wilson
Léa Seydoux
Timothee Chalamet
Lyna Khoudri
Details
- Format: DVD (AC-3, Dolby, Dubbed)
- Run Time: 108
- UPC: 786936880939
- Genre: COMEDIES
- Rating: R
- Release Date: December 2021
Movie Reviews
Reviews:
"Bursting at the seams with hand-crafted visual delights and eccentric performances from a stacked ensemble entirely attuned to the writer-director’s signature wavelength, this is the film equivalent of a short story collection." - 07/12/2021 Hollywood Reporter
"The movie’s packed with inside jokes for audiences hip to the arts and culture scene of 1950s and ’60s New York and Paris." - 07/12/2021 Variety
"The movie is undeniably clever and intoxicating to look at, and his actors seem to thrill at the chance to chase the chemtrails of his wildly esoteric storylines." - 09/04/2021 Entertainment Weekly
4 stars out of 4 -- ""[I]t's very fun to watch. It's a fast-paced delirious movie about a very slow unchanging world." - 10/22/2021 RogerEbert.com
"Anderson expresses a fan’s zeal and a collector’s greed for both canonical works and weird odds and ends, a love for old modernisms that is undogmatic and unsentimental." - 10/20/2021 New York Times
"Every shot here is an event, a peerless punchline, a work of art, or all three." - 10/21/2021 A.V. Club
"Wes Anderson’s ode to print journalism has amazing visuals, lots of laughs and an A-list cast -- including Bill Murray -- making it a real treat." - 12/07/2021 The Guardian
"It’s a valentine both to the New Yorker magazine – especially trailblazing midcentury cosmopolitan contributors such as A.J. Liebling, Mavis Gallant and James Baldwin – and to the cinema and culture of his adopted homeland France." - 12/03/2021 Sight and Sound
"Constructed as a love letter to a New Yorker-like magazine, director Wes Anderson’s wry, shining nugget of a film has some memorably funny and clever set pieces and a bevy of fine performances." - 12/17/2021 Chicago Sun-Times
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