The first images of Wes Anderson's new movie
With a stellar cast that includes Benicio Del Toro, Timothee Chalamet, Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray and many others
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February 12th, 2020
February 12th, 2020
The anticipation around Wes Anderson's new film is growing as we get closer to July 24, its release date in US theatres. The details known are still scarce, but enough to excite the numerous fans of the Texas author. The title, The French Dispatch, hints at a fictitious European edition of Evening Sun in Liberty (Kansas), which was inspired by the American magazine The New Yorker. The movie, set at an undetermined moment in the middle of the last century in the fictitious French metropolis of Ennui-sur-Blasé ( the shooting took place in Angoulême), has been described as a love letter to journalists. The plot?
On the death of the editor-in-chief, the editorial staff decides to publish a last, memorial edition highlighting the three best stories which appeared over the 10-year existence of the magazine. The stories involve an artist sentenced to life imprisonment for a double homicide; student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.
The project includes a stellar cast: Benicio Del Toro, Tilda Swinton, Adrien Brody, Bill Murray, Timothée Chalamet, Owen Wilson, Frances McDormand, Elisabeth Moss, Lea Seydoux, Mathieu Amalric, Lyna Khoudri e Stephen Park.
In the last hours, The New Yorker has unveiled the first images of the film and the roles played by the actors. Bill Murray's character is called Arthur Howitzer Jr. and is inspired by Harold Ross, the founding editor of The New Yorker; while Elisabeth Moss, Owen Wilson, Tilda Swinton, Fisher Stevens, Griffin Dunne are part of the editorial staff. Benicio del Toro and Léa Seydoux are the artists Moses Rosenthaler and his prison guard and muse. Brody plays Julian Cadazio, an art dealer who recalls Lord Duveen; Frances McDormand is the journalist Lucinda Krementz and Timothée Chalamet plays the revolutionary Zeffirelli.
Call Me By Your Name actor appears naked in the bathtub, in the poster of The French Dispatch, an image by Spanish illustrator and cartoonist Javi Aznarez that looks like the cover of a literary magazine.
