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, Wes Anderson's new film will be in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival this year.
Usually scheduled in spring, the 74th edition of the festival will be held this year from July 6 to 17 on the Croisette.
In the presence, therefore, of the team of this film set in France in the 1950s. The news was announced on the feature film's Twitter account, which unveils a new poster for the occasion.
If the final selection for the 74th edition will not be announced until Thursday, June 3, several films have already announced that they are in the running for the Palme d'Or.
Leos Carax's
dramatic musical
Annette
, starring Marion Cotillard and Adam Driver will open the festival, while
Dutch director Paul Verhoeven's
Benedetta will
feature Virginie Efira as a lesbian nun in 17th century Italy .
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has also announced its new US release date, Friday, October 22, 2021. If the release date of the film in France remains unknown, it could be set two days before the US release, or on Wednesday following.
The new adventure of the director of
The Grand Budapest Hotel
offers to meet regulars like Bill Murray, Adam Brody, Owen Wilson, Saoirse Ronan, Tilda Swinton and Frances McDormand.
All sprinkled with a French touch, with the presence of Timothée Chalamet, Mathieu Amalric and Léa Seydoux.
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, the new and so secret Wes Anderson?
A city reminiscent of old Montmartre, Angoulême was chosen to host the film crews and to give life to this story which takes place in the heart of Paris in the 1950s and in a fictitious town called Ennui-sur-Blasé. Without knowing more about the story, the work is above all a love letter addressed to journalists. The story takes place in the offices of correspondents of an American newspaper located in the heart of an imaginary French town of the 20th century and brings to life a collection of articles published by the magazine
The French Dispatch
.
