On the occasion of the death of its beloved Kansas-born editor Arthur Howitzer, Jr., the staff of The French Dispatch, a widely circulated American magazine based in the French city of Ennui-sur-Blasé, convenes to write his obituary. Memories of Howitzer flow into the creation of four stories: a travelogue of the seediest sections of the city itself; a article about a criminally insane painter; a chronicle of love and death on the barricades at the height of student revolt; and a suspenseful tale of drugs, kidnapping and fine dining.
Presented at Cannes and San Sebastián film festivals.
The French Dispatch
2021
14 years
107 min.
Fiction
United Kingdom, France, Germany
France, international festivals, journalism, death, magic realism
Colorido, P&B
Wes Anderson
Wes Anderson
Robert Yeoman
Andrew Weisblum
Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Léa Seydoux, Frances McDormand, Timothée Chalamet, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Christoph Waltz, Edward Norton, Jason Schwartzman, Anjelica Huston
Searchlight Pictures, Indian Paintbrush Present, American Empirical Picture
Wes Anderson, Steven Rales, Jeremy Dawson, Octavia Peissel
Alexandre Desplat
Disney
45