The Paris-set newspaper caper, starring Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, and Timothée Chalamet - feels like the filmmaker turned up to 11
Love him or loathe him (and we love him), the arrival of a new Wes Anderson film is a cinematic event that cannot be ignored. Now, six years after his previous live-action foray, The Grand Budapest Hotel, and two years after his stop-motion animated film about dogs in Japan, we're finally treated to the first trailer for The French Dispatch. And let's just say this thing looks to be just about the most Wes Anderson-y movie the man has ever made.
The plot, we already know, “brings to life a collection of stories from the fictional issue of an American magazine published in a fictional 20th-century French city,” and features a miraculous ensemble cast consisting of Tilda Swinton, Saoirse Ronan, Elisabeth Moss, Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe, Benicio Del Toro, Jeffery Wright, Léa Seydoux, Adrien Brody, and – yes – Timothée Chalamet. That's right: basically anyone who's anyone has found their way into this film (and there are too many to list).
The highly-anticipated trailer, a thing of stark beauty in and of itself, gives us a heavily-narrated montage of symmetrically-framed images and sardonic one-liners – some in those familiar pastel colours that Anderson is renowned for, others in gorgeous black-and-white. Bill Murray quips. Léa Seydoux poses. Guns are excessively fired. Most notably, perhaps, there is Timothée Chalamet in a bathtub, towel wrapped around his head, sporting a somewhat questionable excuse for facial hair. The movies!
The French Dispatch will be released in UK cinemas on 28 August.
