The French Dispatch

Wes Anderson
Part of

59th New York Film Festival

September 24 - October 10, 2021

As brimming with finely tuned texture as a juicy issue of a vintage magazine, The French Dispatch features precision work from a full masthead of collaborators, with director Wes Anderson’s deadpan whimsy complementing the film’s palpable sense of nostalgia.

DIRECTOR
Wes Anderson
YEAR
2021
COUNTRY
USA
RUNTIME
107 minutes
LANGUAGE
English and French with English subtitles

The October 2 screening will feature a Q&A with Anjelica Fellini, Lois Smith, Bob Balaban, Léa Seydoux, and Jeffrey Wright (in person) and Wes Anderson & additional cast members (virtual).

Wes Anderson’s unmistakable cinematic style proves delightfully suited to periodical format in this missive from the eponymous expatriate journal, published on behalf of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun from the picturesque French town of Ennui-sur-Blasé. Brought to press by a corps of idiosyncratic correspondents, the issue includes reports on a criminal artist and his prison guard muse, student revolutionaries, and a memorable dinner with a police commissioner and his personal chef. As brimming with finely tuned texture as a juicy issue of a certain New York–based magazine to which the film pays homage, The French Dispatch features precision work from a full masthead of collaborators (including Bill Murray, Timothée Chalamet, Tilda Swinton, Benicio del Toro, Frances McDormand, and Jeffrey Wright), each propagating inventive dedication to detail. Anderson’s deadpan whimsy is complemented by the film’s palpable sense of nostalgia. A Searchlight Pictures release.

Closed Captions and audio descriptions available with our capti-view devices at screenings.

The French Dispatch
The French Dispatch
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