The French Dispatch
2021 · Movie · R · 108 min · ★ 7.0 · 75% critics
As an American magazine bureau in France prepares its final issue, the staff revisits a set of vivid feature stories. The collection moves from an imprisoned artist and a burst of student unrest to an offbeat kidnapping case, all tied together by a love of writing, art, and eccentric local life.
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Details
- Original title
- The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
- Years
- 2021
- Release date
- 2021-10-21
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Critic score
- 75/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.0/10 (2,977 votes)
- Box office
- $46,333,545
- Budget
- $25,000,000
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you like quirky, densely packed anthology stories, rapid-fire dialogue, and a whimsical love letter to journalism in the vein of The Grand Budapest Hotel or Asteroid City; Not for you if you want a simple, slow, straightforward plot.
Pros: playful, detailed style; strong ensemble performances; witty, surreal humor | Cons: uneven anthology segments; fast, overwhelming pace; hard-to-follow storytelling
Themes
- art collector
- journalist
- small town
- france
- poison
- 1970s
- journalism
- editor-in-chief
- artist
- imprisonment
- painter
- riot
- +15 more
Cast & crew
Benicio del Toro
as Moses Rosenthaler
Adrien Brody
as Julian Cadazio
Tilda Swinton
as J.K.L. Berensen
Léa Seydoux
as Simone
Frances McDormand
as Lucinda Krementz
Timothée Chalamet
as Zeffirelli
Lyna Khoudri
as Juliette
Jeffrey Wright
as Roebuck Wright
Mathieu Amalric
as The Commissaire
Steve Park
as Nescaffier
Directed by Wes Anderson