Searchlight Pictures has released the first clip from Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch” following its successful premiere at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.
Reviews out of the Croisette have dubbed it the “most Wes Anderson movie to have ever Wes Anderson-ed” with the filmmaker dialling up his meticulous and symmetrical shot compositions and his whimsy to the point that it might prove a bit more divisive than usual. Still, reviews are uniformly positive with almost all gushing. It presently sits at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Frances McDormand and Timothee Chalamet converse in a bathroom in this clip for a film described as a love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city.
The ensemble includes Oscar winners McDormand, Benicio Del Toro, Adrien Brody and Tilda Swinton along with Oscar nominees Chalamet, Bill Murray and Owen Wilson. Lea Seydoux, Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, Liev Schreiber, Elisabeth Moss, Edward Norton, Willem Dafoe, Lois Smith, Saoirse Ronan, Christoph Waltz, Anjelica Huston, Jason Schwartzman, Henry Winkler, Stephen Park, Lyna Khoudri and more also star.
“The French Dispatch” is set to score a U.S. theatrical release on October 22nd, the same day that Chalamet’s other big film this year – “Dune” – also hits cinemas.
