Wes Anderson, The French Dispatch inspired by De Sica

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 06 - "THE FRENCH DISPATCH is a French film, but with an Italian heart. I was inspired by your cinema and above all by a film like L'ORO DI NAPOLI by VittorioDe Sica: when I saw it for the first time I decided I have made a similar one. I love these cinematographic anthologies that you can also find in Visconti and Fellini, a very Italian format ". Word of Wes Anderson, at a press conference in Milan where he presented THE FRENCH DISPATCH, already in competition at the last Cannes Film Festival, in Italian cinemas from 11 November, distributed by Walt Disney.

    At the center of it all is an American journalist (Bill Murray) who creates his own magazine in the fictional French town of Ennui-sur-Blasé. On his death some micro-stories are published in his homage by the editorial staff. More than that, it is a collection of author's journalistic services published on The French Dispatch. The film is inspired by Anderson's love for the New Yorker. "I never called this film a love letter to journalism. I was misunderstood. I put it in the film as a footnote, which is a list of all the writers I read in the New Yorker who inspired me as a boy. affection for them. I am however tied to newspapers - continues the director - and every day I buy one, even if they are part of a journalism that is disappearing ".

    And again: "There has always been a tradition of false information, of fake news, on the part of the press to sell better. So it is no coincidence that my story tries to highlight the role of an editor who cares that there is truth in what he reads. in his newspaper. Today they are published like this without any mediation, there is no longer an intermediary figure and so I regret the past ".

    In the mega cast of the film also Benicio Del Toro, Adrien Brody, Francesc McDormand, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Owen Wilson, Timothée Chalamet, Mathieu Amalric, Willem Dafoe, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber and Lea Seydoux.

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