The French Dispatch
Film details
| Film Title | The French Dispatch |
|---|---|
| Suitability | |
| Genre | |
| Length | 108mins |
| Year | 2021 |
| Country | Germany, United States |
| Director | Wes Anderson |
| Actors | Basically everyone you like; Léa Seydoux, Timothée Chalamet, Christoph Waltz, Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Lyna Khoudri, Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, Stephen Park, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Liev Schreiber, Edward Norton, Willem Dafoe, Saoirse Ronan, Elisabeth Moss, Jason Schwartzman, Christoph Waltz, and Anjelica Huston |
| Language | English, French |
| Showings |
A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional twentieth century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in “The French Dispatch Magazine”.
“The French Dispatch” is perhaps Anderson’s best film to date. It is certainly his most accomplished.
★★★★★
The movie is an anthology not only of vibrant magazine stories come to life, but of seemingly everything Anderson knows how to do as a director. For some, this will inevitably feel more like a limit. For the rest of us, it’s one of his best
★★★★★
The key to The French Dispatch’s sneaky resonance, tucked into the spaces between its moving parts, is Anderson’s balancing act of reverence and irreverence. He sees the humor in artistic pretension—in the self-seriousness of tortured artists and rebellious youth.
★★★★★
The French Dispatch is a movie made with such deliberate, patient skill, and such brio, that its meandering structure and oddly low emotional temperature come off as intentional choices rather than errors of artistic judgment.
★★★★
