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The French Dispatch (2021)


A series of stories/columns in a filmed version of a local magazine for fictional French town. There's a crazed artist in prison and how the art scene have to deal with its acclaimed priceless works being cemented into prison walls; very cool 1960s radicals and protesting French students; Lea Seydoux having fun (!) a strange cycling column (what to see in your local area... beware the feral choir boys rampaging around). I thought it was really funny - especially the 1960s political/French New Wave pastiche, which switched into black and white with lots of smoking. Timothee Chalamot's hair is a starring attraction in its own right!

Jeffrey Wright (Felix Leiter lives!) strange tale of police, detective investigations, culinary genius chefs and kidnapped sons - part Tin Tin, part Pink Panther, part animation!

Not sure if it was meant to be funny, but it was! I loved the argument over what to put in the manifesto....And lots of proper French accents... and subtitles =)


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