The French Dispatch

Fri 5 Nov 13:30 & 16:45 Sat 6 Nov 12:30 & 17:45 Sun 7 Nov 12:30 & 20:30 Mon 8 Nov 17:00 & 19:45

Tue 9 Nov 13:30 (Socially Distanced Screening) Tue 9 Nov 16:45

Wed 10 Nov 13:30 (Subtitled for Hard of Hearing) Wed 10 Nov 16:45 Thu 11 Nov 13:30

Thu 11 Nov 19:45 (Socially Distanced Screening)

Wes Anderson’s love letter to journalists set in the French outpost of an American newspaper that brings to life a collection of stories published in ‘The French Dispatch’.

This is Wes Anderson at his most Wes Anderson – breezy, cheeky vignettes that are arch, whimsical and melancholically humorous. The three stories in the anthology begin with Benicio del Toro’s imprisoned artist and smooth-talking art dealer Adrian Brody trying to make him a success. The second concerns Timothée Chalamet as a student radical while the third is a rollicking crime caper in which the son of a police chief is kidnapped by a gangster in the shape of Edward Norton. This is unlikely to sway any Anderson sceptics however, one thing’s for sure: there is nothing quite like ‘The French Dispatch’ – except Anderson’s other films, of course. Germany/USA 2021 Wes Anderson 103m

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