The French Dispatch

In a fictional 20th century French town, Arthur Howitzer Jr., the editor of the American newspaper The French DIspatch, dies of cardiac arrest. What happens to the newspaper agency after Arthur’s death forms the crux of the story. Wes Anderson's latest visually unorthodox offering is a triptych centred on various stories and cover profiles that a news organisation brings out, intercutting often with detours into the lives of the columnists, the boundaries between the subject and author intertwining. The first story is about an art dealer and a mentally perturbed genius who has been serving a jail sentence for homicide. The second is about a student revolution, the third on a kidnapping. The film features a vast ensemble including Tilda Swinton, Timothee Chalamet, Adrien Brody, Léa Seydoux, Frances McDormand, Bill Murray, Jeffrey Wright, Owen Wilson among others.