Oct
20

Fall Focus

October 20, 2021 - 7:30 pm At The Brattle

$15 General Admission
$12 IFFBoston & Brattle members, and students*

*Limited to one ticket per screening per membership card or Student ID. Tickets bought online must be verified with your valid membership card/ID at time of pick up at the Brattle Box Office. Member discount cannot be combined with other offers.

NOTE: We will be following all of the Brattle’s COVID policies. This includes proof of full COVID vaccination or a negative COVID test within 72 hours, wearing masks while in the building, and socially distanced seating. View the Brattle’s website for the latest info.

Fall Focus 2021 Opening Night Film

Wes Anderson’s unmistakable cinematic style proves delightfully suited to periodical format in this missive from the eponymous expatriate journal, published on behalf of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun from the picturesque French town of Ennui-sur-Blasé. Brought to press by a corps of idiosyncratic correspondents, the issue includes reports on a criminal artist and his prison guard muse, student revolutionaries, and a memorable dinner with a police commissioner and his personal chef. As brimming with finely tuned texture as a juicy issue of a certain New York–based magazine to which the film pays homage, The French Dispatch features precision work from a full masthead of collaborators (including Bill Murray, Timothée Chalamet, Tilda Swinton, Benicio del Toro, Frances McDormand, and Jeffrey Wright), each propagating inventive dedication to detail. Anderson’s deadpan whimsy is complemented by the film’s palpable sense of nostalgia.

—New York Film Festival guide