![]() The travelogue – a bike-powered voyage to the dark side starring Owen Wilson, which takes in pickpockets, floating corpses and bands of renegade choirboys – has a bracing savagery that’s at odds with the film’s self-consciously charming aesthetic. The first section, a portrait of a criminally insane artist (Benicio del Toro), is a sly pleasure, not least because it’s narrated by Tilda Swinton as arts correspondent JKL Berensen, a fabulously glamorous creature with buck teeth, a tangerine evening dress and the tantalising hint of a scandalous past. Elsewhere, though, there is more to admire. It says something about Anderson’s hermetically sealed privilege that he can take something as essential as dissent and render it in a tonal palette that is all cutesy pastels and adorable kitsch, while neatly sidestepping any hint of politics. This is a tale of student protest, starring Frances McDormand as ace reporter Lucinda Krementz and Timothée Chalamet as Zeffirelli, the wild-haired, chess-playing, Gauloise-sucking student leader. And however engaging the film’s final story is – the most satisfying by no small margin a food review turned heist thriller narrated by and starring Jeffrey Wright at his most mellifluous and charming – patience will be sorely tried by the segment that comes before it. The problem with the anthology structure – the film is made of three discrete stories, each based on a feature article by one of the magazine’s star writers, plus a brief scene-setting travelogue that digs into the insalubrious corners of the town of Ennui-sur-Blasé – is that it’s almost inevitably uneven. ![]() But given that on a first viewing I found it to be among the most punchable films I have ever seen, the initial bar was lower than with some of Anderson’s other pictures. That is certainly the case with his latest, The French Dispatch, a showily starry portmanteau picture that takes as a jumping-off point the final issue of a supplement magazine for the fictional Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun newspaper. What Muslim Women Want: Overwhelming majority in favour of 21 years as legal age for marriageĦ7.The films of Wes Anderson, with their intricately layered details and fanatically meticulous design, almost invariably reward a second viewing. WATCH: 35 crude bombs recovered from pond in Bengal's Murshidabad on repolling dayĭelhi's drainage system not designed to withstand so much rain, says Arvind KejriwalĪccording to a flood bulletin, the water level at the Old Railway Bridge increased from 203.18 metres at 1 pm on Sunday to 203.58 metres at 10 am on Monday. Over 8,035 Muslim women participated in the survey from 25 states and Union Territories India Speaks on UCC: Majority Muslim women in favour of common laws on marriage, divorce, inheritance Naqvi talking about the News18 UCC survey that showed that an overwhelming number of Muslim women in India want uniform laws on inheritance, marriage and divorce across age and education brackets ![]() Adrien Brody portrays an art dealer Julian Cadazio, who was the subject of a six-part New Yorker profile from 1951. Tilda Swinton plays The French Dispatch writer JKL Berensen. Benicio del Toro essays the role of an imprisoned artist Moses Rosenthaler, and Léa Seydoux plays his prison guard and muse, Simone. Lyna Khoudri and Timothée Chalamet portray student revolutionaries Juliette and Zeffrelli respectively.Ĭongress, Opposition parties will split down the middle when UCC goes to vote in Parliament: Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi The character is inspired by Harold Ross, founding editor of The New Yorker, and AJ Liebling. Owen Wilson essayed Herbsaint Sazerac, a character inspired by low-life beat writer Joseph Mitchell. The New Yorker writes Bill Murray plays Arthur Howitzer Jr, the editor of The French Dispatch. The other actors who appear in the film but are not illustrated in the official poster are Liev Schreiber, Elisabeth Moss, Edward Norton, Willem Dafoe, Lois Smith, Saoirse Ronan, Christoph Waltz, Cécile De France, Guillame Gallienne, Jason Schwartzman, Tony Revolori, Rupert Friend, Henry Winkler, Bob Balaban, Hippolyte Girardot, and Anjelica Huston.Īccording to the official description, The French Dispatch is a "love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city and brings to life a collection of stories published in The French Dispatch magazine.”
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