The French Dispatch

After deciding to wait a year for the world premiere at Cannes, The French Dispatch sets off on its expedition to win over spectators. Just as The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou was in part a tribute to the exploratory voyages of popular French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, Wes Anderson's latest film is a parodic and nostalgic tribute to the fearless and adventurous editors and journalists of literary magazines similar to The New Yorker, set in a fictional French city in the 20th century. The director pays homage to the spirit and type of “dream editors” who gave their writers and collaborators a margin of freedom that nowadays is practically a mirage.

Duration: 103
Production year: 2021
Country: Germany, United States of America
Subtitles: Subtitles: PT

Cannes Festival - Competition Official Selection

Wes Anderson

Wes Anderson, born in 1969, in Houston (Texas), studied at the University of Texas at Austin, where he graduated with a degree in Philosophy and where he met and became friends with Owen Wilson, with whom he began making short films. In 1994, one of these shorts was screened at the Sundance Festival, and the reception was so enthusiastic that it secured funding to make a feature version of this short (which, although not commercially successful, generated a cult following and attracted the attention of a demanding audience, with Martin Scorsese as one of the earliest fans). But success and recognition would come with films like Rushmore (1998), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) or The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004). Since 2002, he has won Oscar nominations for five films.

Original title: The French Dispatch

Wes Anderson

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