![]() ![]() So that to a French person listening to it, they wouldn’t listen and think, ‘Oh, that’s disrespectful’ or ‘That just doesn’t make sense.’” And that also meant that I had to work on my French pronunciation and stuff like that. “I didn’t want it to be in any way kind of a pastiche-type thing. “I wanted it to be a kind of sincere love letter to French pop music,” said Cocker recently from England. The “Chansons d’Ennui” album serves as a primer survey on French pop, including songs originally sung by Hardy, Serge Gainsbourg, Brigitte Bardot, Jacques Dutronc, Brigitte Fontaine, Alain Delon and others. The filmmaker had used French pop music before in the memorable moment from 2012’s “Moonrise Kingdom” when two teen runaways dance on a beach to Françoise Hardy’s “Le temps de l’amour.” The Joe Dassin song “Les Champs Élysées” plays during the end credits of 2007’s “The Darjeeling Limited.” So the idea of having Jarvis Cocker tackle a survey of French pop classics wasn’t entirely without precedent within Anderson’s musical ecosystem. We always try to have it like another flavor not yet in film.”Īnderson’s “The Life Aquatic” featured the Brazilian musician Seu Jorge singing samba arrangements of David Bowie songs. But the music we try to create together is not referential. It’s unpredictable, it is a world where the history of cinema is very present. ![]() “There is this sense of humor, a lot of poetry and it’s dreamlike. “He’s going to a world of his own and I like being part of it,” said Desplat. The cast is bursting with recognizable actors, including Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Willem Dafoe, Elisabeth Moss, Edward Norton, Tony Revolori, Bob Balaban, Lyna Khoudri, Stephen Park and, in a role billed only as “Junkie/Showgirl #1,” Saoirse Ronan. A food writer (Jeffrey Wright) becomes entangled in a kidnapping plot. A journalist (Frances McDormand) assists a young student revolutionary named Zeffirelli (Timothée Chalamet). An art critic (Tilda Swinton) describes a madman artist (Benicio Del Toro) and his prison guard muse (Léa Seydoux). Fox” and worked on a “French Dispatch” companion album of covers of French pop songs titled “Chansons d’Ennui” under the name of a fictional popstar Tip-Top referenced in the film.Īn anthology of stories structured like a magazine, “The French Dispatch” tells the tale of a “New Yorker”-esque English-language publication based in the fictional town of Ennui-sur-Blasé, France. Cocker voiced a character in Anderson’s 2009 animated film “Fantastic Mr. Three of the key collaborators behind the music of the movie recently discussed just how that particular part of Anderson’s highly specific world came together.ĭesplat has composed multiple scores for Anderson, winning an Oscar for his work on 2014’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel.” Music supervisor Randall Poster has worked with Anderson since his first feature film, 1996’s “Bottle Rocket.” Jarvis Cocker is best known as the frontman for the Britpop sensation Pulp before launching a successful solo career. The latest of Anderson’s unmistakable and idiosyncratic creations, “The French Dispatch,” finally reached theaters last week, posting the highest per screen average for a specialty release in the pandemic, and goes wide Friday. Wes Anderson, Jeremy Dawson, Steven M.These words from composer Alexandre Desplat succinctly describe the filmmaking of Wes Anderson. Timothée Chalamet, Elisabeth Moss, Tilda Swinton, Saoirse Ronan, Léa Seydoux, Edward Norton, Christoph Waltz, Benicio Del Toro, Frances McDormand, Jeffrey Wright, Adrien Brody, Owen Wilson, Mathieu Amalric, Lyna Khoudri, Steve Park, Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe, Kate Winslet, Cécile de France, Rupert Friend, Jason Schwartzman, Pablo Pauly, Vincent Macaigne, Denis Ménochet ![]() Wes Anderson, Jason Schwartzman, Roman Coppola, Hugo Guinness United States, Germany, France, United Kingdom A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional twentieth century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in "The French Dispatch Magazine". ![]()
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