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Office of The French Dispatch
“Over the next ten years, he assembled a team of the best expatriate journalists of his time and transformed Picnic into The French Dispatch.”
J.K.L. Berensen (Tilda Swinton)
Divided into three distinct parts, The French Dispatch, Wes Anderson’s tenth film, takes place in a fictional town created from Angoulême and its surroundings. The anchor of the film is the office of The French Dispatch, the newspaper where editor Arthur Howitzer Jr. (Bill Murray). The building in which the journalists are working is actually 10 Place Saint-Pierre, a building located on the square in front of Saint Peter’s Cathedral.
As usual, Wes Anderson wanted to give birth to new settings to anchor the different stories that are intertwined in his film. Thus, 10 Place Saint-Pierre has been slightly reshaped to shine on the screen. If the lower part remains recognizable, all the upper part was added in post-production to give the whole a little more grandiose aspect. Of course, a sign was also put up.
Set designer Adam Stockhausen did the initial research on Google Map before settling on Angoulême. He explained in the columns of Vanity Fair: “Angoulême had the age and architecture we needed, but even more than the preserved old town, there were winding streets, stairs, a viaduct, and a whole vertical stack of interesting and unique spaces. It gave some beautiful images, and it also reminds us of some districts of Paris, Lyon and other French cities. The wide variety of slopes, stairs, passages and curves that the city offered was quite amazing.“However, no footage was shot inside 10 Place Saint-Pierre. All the scenes taking place in the offices of the French Dispatch were filmed in sets built in an old felt factory in Gond-Pontouvre.
The French Dispatch was written by Wes Anderson from a story he created in collaboration with his three friends Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman and Hugo Guinness.
10 Pl. Saint-Pierre
This building in the typical architectural style of the region faces a superb panorama.
Divided into several apartments, 10 place Saint-Pierre also houses a video game school, located on the ground floor. Facing the Saint-Pierre cathedral, in the city center of Angoulême, he has witnessed several events over the years and appears in a few films and series. A modest player in history, this building had its hour of glory in the film The French Dispatch in which, elegantly made up, it hosts the offices of the newspaper held with an iron fist by Bill Murray.
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Passionné de cinéma, de rock and roll, de séries TV et de littérature. Rédacteur de presse et auteur des livres Le Heavy Metal au cinéma, Paroles de fans Guns N' Roses, Paroles de fans Rammstein et Welcome to my Jungle : 100 albums rock et autres anecdotes dépareillées. Adore également voyager à la recherche des lieux les plus emblématiques de la pop culture.