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The French Dispatch (2021)
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun is a 2021 American anthology comedy drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Wes Anderson from a story he conceived with Roman Coppola, Hugo Guinness, and Jason Schwartzman. It features an expansive ensemble cast and follows three different storylines as the French news bureau of the fictional Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun newspaper publishes its final…
Directed by Wes Anderson · Shot by Robert Yeoman · Cut by Andrew Weisblum · Music by Alexandre Desplat · 108 min
How it was made
- Cinematographer Robert Yeoman shot on 35mm, using Kodak Vision3 200T stock for the colour sequences and Eastman Double-X for the black-and-white ones, on Arricam Studio and Lite cameras.
- The crew used scaffolding and ropes to move camera equipment rather than a Technocrane, and golf carts instead of camera cars, following Anderson's preference for classic, low-tech methods.
- Most of the film was framed in the 1.37:1 Academy ratio, as in The Grand Budapest Hotel, with occasional anamorphic shots used, in Yeoman's words, 'to make a bold dramatic statement.'
- The animated segments, directed by Gwenn Germain, were hand-drawn entirely by a team of up to 15 local Angoulême illustrators over about seven months.
- Production designer Adam Stockhausen's team built more than 125 sets, mostly on location around Angoulême, and converted a former felt factory into a makeshift studio.
- Artist Sandro Kopp spent three months painting Rosenthaler's abstract canvases for the film and also served as Tony Revolori's hand double in the painting scenes.
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