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The French Dispatch
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun

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Directed by Wes Anderson
Produced by Wes Anderson, Jeremy Dawson, and Steven M. Rales
Screenplay by Wes Anderson Story by Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Hugo Guinness, and Jason Schwartzman
With: Benicio Del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Léa Seydoux, Frances McDormand, Timothée Chalamet, Lyna Khoudri, Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, Steve Park, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Bob Balaban, Henry Winkler, Lois Smith, Tony Revolori, Denis Ménochet, Larry Pine, Morgane Polanski, Félix Moati, Mohamed Belhadjine, Nicolas Avinée, Christoph Waltz, Cécile De France, Guillaume Gallienne, Rupert Friend, Alex Lawther, Tom Hudson, Lily Taieb, Stéphane Bak, Hippolyte Girardot, Liev Schreiber, Willem Dafoe, Edward Norton, Saoirse Ronan, Winsen Ait Hellal, Mauricette Coudivat, Damien Bonnard, Rodolphe Pauly, Antonia Desplat, Elisabeth Moss, Jason Schwartzman, Fisher Stevens, Griffin Dunne, Pablo Pauly, and Wallace Wolodarsky
Cinematography: Robert D. Yeoman
Editing: Andrew Weisblum
Music: Alexandre Desplat
Runtime: 108 min
Release Date: 21 October 2021
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
Color: Color
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In his most shallow, star-stuffed work of fanciful art direction since Tenenbaums, Anderson attempts to do for publications like The New Yorker what The Grand Budapest Hotel did so well for writer Stephan Swig, but Anderson has overlooked the fact that New Yorker pieces have real substance, not just endless whimsy.