Looking back on this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the comedy-drama film “The French Dispatch” directed by the genius director Wes Anderson premiered and received a standing ovation for 9 minutes, becoming a hot topic. This film gathered many film and television celebrities, with about half of the cast attending the festival for promotion. The heartwarming scene of Tilda Swinton and “sweet tea” Timothee Chalamet holding hands even trended on social media, showing that not only does this film have a stellar cast, but the actors also have a high level of discussion. After a long wait, “The French Dispatch” will soon be officially released in Hong Kong!
The lineup of stars this time is quite strong, including Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Benicio Del Toro, Academy Award-winning actress Tilda Swinton, rising young heartthrob Timothee Chalamet, promising new actress Lyna Khoudri, Academy Award-winning actor Adrien Brody, as well as Mathieu Amalric, Owen Wilson, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, and more. Just looking at the lineup alone is worth the price of admission.
“The French Dispatch” is the 10th feature film by renowned director Wes Anderson, known for his uniquely visual aesthetic films. Anderson’s works are quirky yet humorous, with classics like “The Royal Tenenbaums,” “Isle of Dogs,” and “The Grand Budapest Hotel.” This film is hailed as a “love letter to journalists,” with the director paying tribute to 20th-century news workers. Set in a US newspaper office in France, the story follows a group of journalists navigating the city in search of news stories while hoping to write their own favorite stories.
It is said that some of the characters in this movie are inspired by journalists and editors from the famous magazine “The New Yorker,” and some of the plot is also inspired by articles previously published in the magazine, including the magazine’s editor-in-chief Arthur Howitzer Jr., inspired by “The New Yorker” founding editor Harold Ross, while the storyline of “Sweet Tea” and Frances McDormand is based on a 1968 article about the Sixty-Eight Movement in “The New Yorker,” Adrien Brody plays an art dealer, and the story unfolds in three lines, each experiencing different strange events.
The movie will be released on the big screen on December 2nd. If you want to know if the latest classic created by the talented director is really so fascinating, you might as well buy a ticket and come watch it!
