Wes Anderson’s new movie, The French Dispatch, is about a fictional weekly magazine that was inspired by The New Yorker. That’s big news for this writer who got their subscription while still a teenager, and used to look at the “goings on about town” and imagine living in New York, while being so far away in Khartoum. Immediately the film shoots to the top of my most anticipated for the year...
Anderson also has been a New Yorker fan since he was a teen-ager, and is known to be a collector of the magazine, going back to editions from the 1940s. For some reason he set the story in France, and the journalists there are mostly American correspondents investigating several stories that will be dramatized in the film. The trailer shows bits in color and others in black and white to show the contrast between the editorial offices of the magazine of the title, and the stories being investigated.
Here’s the official synopsis:
The film is a love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th Century French city and brings to life a collection of stories published in ‘The French Dispatch’ magazine.
As usual the cast is to die for, mostly full of returning Anderson regulars. Benicio Del Toro, Frances McDormand, Jeffrey Wright, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Timothee Chalamet, Lea Seydoux, Owen Wilson, Mathieu Amalric, Lyna Khoudri, Stephen Park and Bill Murray get top billing in the trailer. Others include Bob Balaban, Jeff Goldblum, Elisabeth Moss, Saoirse Ronan, Edward Norton, Christoph Waltz, Willem Dafoe, Lois Smith and Liev Schriber.
What do you think of the trailer?