"The French Dispatch" is the name of the wonderfully weird comedy by US director Wes Anderson, which is now coming to the cinema.
Stars like Bill Murray, Léa Seydoux, Tilda Swinton, Adrien Brody and Timothée Chalamet play with it.
Our film review:
To get rid of a massive misunderstanding right away: "The French Dispatch", the new film by Wes Anderson, is actually not a film at all.
With this bizarre comedy, the director has brought a magazine to the screen;
"The French Dispatch" is a magazine in which the audience can read, leaf through, enjoy great stories and wonderful pictures - just like in any good newspaper available at the kiosk.
"The French Dispatch": a gorgeous ensemble
Wes Anderson and his gorgeous cast of very many very prominent actors and actresses celebrate journalism.
Print lives!
At the center of this wonderful story is the title issue, which is an offshoot of the newspaper “Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun” produced in France.
In the fictional French town of Ennui-sur-Blasé, which means something like “boredom in indifference” in German, Arthur Howitzer Jr., who comes from Kansas, has set up an international editorial office for his home paper.
The editors of “The French Dispatch” write about culture, politics and society in France.
But Howitzer dies - and has ordered in his will that the magazine should end with him.
His editorial team looks back at the funeral service.
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The founder of "The French Dispatch" and father of the journalists' troupe: Arthur Howitzer Jr. (Bill Murray).
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Anderson, who has shown with films like “Grand Budapest Hotel” that his style has nothing, absolutely nothing to do with the mass-produced goods from Hollywood, uses the framework to build up “The French Dispatch” dramatically like a magazine: After the Editorial he leads the audience through the individual sections of his magazine. First there is the travel report of the Radl reporter Herbsaint Sazerac, then art editor JKL Berensen describes the incredible career of inmate Moses Rosenthaler, who advanced to become a painter prince behind bars - and his prison locker into a nude model. In the political section, Lucinda Krementz writes about the revolt of the French students - with particularly intense appreciation of their leader.And at the end of the magazine, police reporter Roebuck Wright delivers a wild kitchen and crime story. Anderson's mixture is colorful, funny, surprising, unusual - just as we can expect from a well-made magazine.
"The French Dispatch": change from color to black and white
Since the contributions differ in each issue, the director will also find different styles for staging his episodes. The skilful change between color and black and white is the most obvious. The individual stories are carried by their protagonists. It is impossible to appreciate everyone. In the strongest report, "The Concrete Masterpiece", Tilda Swinton comically gives a fun-free, conceited art editor to kneel down, while Benicio del Toro as the taciturn painter prince is physically a stunner in jail. And Léa Seydoux, who can currently also be seen in “James Bond: No Time to Die” in the cinema, has her pants on as a guard - even when she is not wearing anything. It is also delicioushow Frances McDormand lets her political journalist Lucinda Krementz experience a second spring - and creates fragile moments in cooperation with Timothée Chalamet as a student rebel. The sheet of more than 20 heads is held together by Bill Murray, who plays the weird, lovable-strict (crying prohibited!) And committed boss Howitzer. So they all have a really exquisite film experience together.
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