2021 Cannes Wes Anderson The French Dispatch

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2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 – Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch

Published on July 13, 2021

He opened the 2012 edition of the Cannes Film Festival with Moonrise Kingdom and he returns for a second year in a row (The French Dispatch was announced for the 2020 edition) and for a second film in comp. Wes Anderson’s latest is as one critic called it more worthy of being a museum piece as there is so much packed in here. A huge cast and all the trimmings, this is worthy of its own book of footnotes.

Favorable ratings from fifteen of our critics, The French Dispatch is currently ranked 3rd.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).