THE FRENCH DISPATCH Trailer
It’s time to get symmetrical with the new Wes Anderson movie The French Dispatch.
Promising to be a collection of separate stories, the framework holding these escapades together is an American newspaper outpost in France. They publish the stories we see, but of course the writers are as strange as the stories they find. It’s period, it’s chock full of whimsy, it’s very Wes Anderson.
I imagine you’re either in or out already, as people have a pretty firm grasp on whether their taste aligns with the impossible to mistake auteur. Maybe you’re in from his early days with Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums, or maybe you’re a more recent convert thanks to The Grand Budapest Hotel and Isle of Dogs. Either way, I wouldn’t say Anderson’s changed much, so you pretty much know what you’re getting here.
And one of those things you always get is a stacked cast, the kind that needs a long series of character cards and a whole separate list of those also appearing. There’s some of his stalwarts in Bill Murray and Owen Wilson, some returning players in Tilda Swinton, Adrien Brody, and Saoirse Ronan, and a whole mess of newcomers that will stretch their quirk muscles, including Benicio del Toro and Timothée Chalamet. Seriously, this thing has three stories and the lives of the newspaper writers, so the cast is literally endless. Hopefully the fun is, too.
The French Dispatch is directed by Wes Anderson and stars Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, and Tilda Swinton. It will be released in the US on July 24th, 2020 and in the UK on August 28th, 2020. For international release dates, click here.
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