The French Dispatch

The French Dispatch is a 2021 American anthology comedy drama film produced by Indian Paintbrush, released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures under the Searchlight Pictures label, and written, directed, and produced by Wes Anderson from a story he conceived with Roman Coppola, Hugo Guinness, and Jason Schwartzman. It features an expansive ensemble cast and follows three different storylines as the French foreign bureau of the fictional Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun newspaper publishes its final issue.
The first segment, "The Concrete Masterpiece", follows an incarcerated and unstable painter, and stars Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton and Léa Seydoux. The second, "Revisions to a Manifesto", is inspired by the May 68 student protests, and stars Frances McDormand, Timothée Chalamet, and Lyna Khoudri. "The Private Dining Room of the Police Commissioner" features Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, and Stephen Park, and follows the kidnapping of a police commissioner's son. Bill Murray also stars as Arthur Howitzer Jr., the paper's editor, while Owen Wilson appears in a short segment that introduces the film's fictional setting of Ennui-sur-Blasé.
The project was first mentioned in August 2018 as an untitled musical set after World War II. That December, the film was officially announced, with Anderson calling it a "love letter to journalists". Filming took place between November 2018 and March 2019, with cinematographer Robert D. Yeoman, in the city of Angoulême, France. In post-production, editing was completed by Andrew Weisblum and the score was composed by Alexandre Desplat.
The French Dispatch was released on DVD and Blu-Ray in the United States on December 28, 2021 by Buena Vista Home Entertainment under the Searchlight Pictures label.
== Images ==
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== Storyline ==
=== Plot ===
Faced with the impending dissolution of The French Dispatch, a factual weekly report on various subjects, old-school editor-in-chief Arthur Howitzer Jr. assembles the crème de la crème of the magazine's loyal expatriate journalists for one final issue. Against the backdrop of picturesque Ennui-sur-Blasé, Paris, France, three main articles unfold, pivoting around tormented genius artists, statuesque prison officers, flamboyant critics, moody idealists, conflicted ace reporters, legendary chefs, and, of course, the police.
=== Genres ===
* Comedy
* Drama
* Romance
=== Home Media Rating ===
* R (US)
== Details ==
=== Countries of origin ===
* Germany
* United States
=== Home Media Release Date ===
* December 28, 2021 (US) (DVD / Blu-Ray)
== Home Media Openings ==
* Opening to The French Dispatch US Blu-Ray (2021)
== Company Credits ==
=== Production Companies ===
* Searchlight Pictures
* Indian Paintbrush
* American Empirical Pictures
* Studio Babelsberg
* TSG Entertainment
=== Distributors ===
* Searchlight Pictures (2021) (US) (DVD / Blu-Ray) (through Buena Vista Home Entertainment)
* Buena Vista Home Entertainment (2021) (US) (DVD / Blu-Ray) (through)
== Technical Specs ==
=== Aspect Ratio ===
* 1.85:1
== Trivia ==
* This is Wes Anderson's first film to be released under the Searchlight Pictures banner after Disney renamed the studio from Fox Searchlight Pictures in January 2020.
* This is Wes Anderson's fourth film to be released by Searchlight Pictures, after The Darjeeling Limited (2007), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) and Isle of Dogs (2018).
* This is Wes Anderson's first film to be distributed by Disney since The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), which was released under the Touchstone Pictures label.
* This is Wes Anderson's fourth film to be distributed by Disney, after Rushmore (1998), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), all of which were released under the Touchstone Pictures label, making this his first Disney-distributed film to not be released under that label.
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