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Wes Anderson’s new film, The French Dispatch, hits theaters Wednesday, October 27. The director imagined life in a French town in XXth century, it is a city fictitious, but which is set in Angoulême, in Charente.
Wes Anderson is back in the city where he shot his new movie: Angoulême, in Charente. It was accompanied by Bill Murray, his favorite actor. The French Dispatch, it’s a wacky patchwork in post-war France. The decor ? An imaginary city named Ennui-sur-Blasé. Everything was filmed in Angoulême at the end of 2018. In the streets of the city, but also in a hangar converted into a film studio.
a Hollywood-sur-Charente, which the American stars adored. “Angoulême is a fairly large city. But for me it has become like a village. I had my corner to have my breakfast, to buy my bread, to eat a steak, ”says Bill Murray. To play alongside the stars, Wes Anderson himself chose a life assistant to do the extras. “I was a princess. He is kind …“ whispers Mauricette Couvidat. She even appears in the trailer. The French Dispatch surprises with its beauty, and offers, as often at Wes Anderson, a retro version. After comics, Angoulême is on the way to becoming a city of cinema.