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The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021)

★ 7.0 · 2,950 ratings on TMDB
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun poster★ 7.0

The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.

DirectorWes Anderson
CastAdrien Brody, Benicio del Toro, Frances McDormand, Jeffrey Wright, Lyna Khoudri, Léa Seydoux
GenresComedy, Drama
The emergence reading

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing journalism, art, politics, culture, memory.

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