Everything you need to know about The French Dispatch!

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The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun or else known simply as The French Dispatch is an upcoming American comedy-drama film. Wes Anderson wrote and directed this movie from a story which Anderson, Roman Coppola, Hugo Guinness, and Jason Schwartzman wrote. The film will focus as one of three different storylines on the French foreign bureau of a fictional Kansas newspaper.

The film features an ensemble cast consisting of Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Léa Seydoux, Frances McDormand, Timothée Chalamet, Lyna Khoudri, Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, Steve Park, Bill Murray and Owen Wilson.

WHAT IS THE FRENCH DISPATCH ABOUT?

According to Wikipedia, The French Dispatch is about, “The film has been described as “a love letter to journalists set at an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city”, centring on three storylines. It brings to life a collection of tales published in the eponymous The French Dispatch, based in the fictional French city of Ennui-Sur-Blasé. The film is inspired by Anderson’s love of The New Yorker, and some characters and events in the film are based on real-life equivalents from the magazine. One of the three storylines centres on the May 68 student occupation protests, inspired by Mavis Gallant’s two-part article “The Events in May: A Paris Notebook”. Another storyline, featuring Adrien Brody’s character of Julien Cadazio, is based on “The Days of Duveen”, a six-part feature in The New Yorker on art dealer Lord Duveen.

When speaking to French publication Charente Libre in April 2019, Anderson said: “The story is not easy to explain, [It’s about an] American journalist based in France [who] creates his magazine. It is more a portrait of this man, of this journalist who fights to write what he wants to write. It’s not a movie about freedom of the press, but when you talk about reporters you also talk about what’s going on in the real world.”

WHAT IS THE CAST FOR THE FRENCH DISPATCH?

• Benicio del Toro as Moses Rosenthaler
• Adrien Brody as Julien Cadazio
• Tilda Swinton as J. K. L. Berensen
• Léa Seydoux as Simone
• Frances McDormand as Lucinda Krementz
• Timothée Chalamet as Zeffirelli
• Lyna Khoudri as Juliette
• Jeffrey Wright as Roebuck Wright
• Alex Lawther as Morisot
• Mathieu Amalric as a policeman with a kidnapped son
• Stephen Park as Lieutenant Nescafier
• Bill Murray as Arthur Howitzer Jr.
• Owen Wilson as Herbsaint Sazerac

WHEN IS THE FRENCH DISPATCH RELEASING?

This movie is set to release on 28 January 2021.

You can watch the movie’s trailer below.