The French Dispatch

Movie • 2020 • Comedy  

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The staff of a European publication decides to publish a memorial edition highlighting the three best stories from the last decade: an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.
This movie contains 39 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
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Does a pet die?
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perunamuusi
Only watched a fraction and there were already two scenes with (probably) real pig corpses being sawed (at the butcher’s), don’t know about the rest. Apparently there are at least cow and chicken corpses too. It seems a lot of animals were killed for this movie.
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Is there bestiality?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Abuse
Is someone stalked?
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Is there domestic violence?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Is a child abused?
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A child is kidnapped, but nothing graphic is shown.
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Addiction
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Is there addiction?
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FLady
Yes a prisoner drinks mouthwash and describes how it is destroying him
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Animal
Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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deaddogfanclub
No animal deaths onscreen.
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Are animals abused?
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perunamuusi
Idk if actual slaughter is shown but a lot of slaughtered bodies are shown being abused, at least.
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taral1
There is a butcher shop with butchered animals in it. A butchered cow carcass is shown being sawed in half. There are paintings of dead birds on a wall. There are taxidermied parakeets on a desk. Dead and butchered animals are strung up in a kitchen. A dead chicken is being plucked.
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Does a cat die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there snakes?
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Are there bugs?
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Assault
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Chel
Much of the film takes place in a psychiatric prison facility and straitjackets are used.
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Nothing happens on screen, but there is brief illusion to an attempted rape that could be upsetting to survivors.
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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A man who has been poisoned is shown gasping and choking in hospital. He survives.
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Is there cannibalism?
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there amputation?
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Brief mention of a man decapitating two others with a meat saw (happens offscreen).
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Does a head get squashed?
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Is there a hanging?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Does someone break a bone?
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Elmidq
Not an epileptical seizure, but someone gets shocked in the electrical chair and is convulsing from that. It lasts 2 seconds max.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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A sequence where a man is tortured in various different ways, including being thrown out of a plane, to extract information from him.
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A man jumps out of a window. Another falls from a tower and drowns.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Children
Does a kid die?
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deaddogfanclub
A child is shot, onscreen, by a man who comes down from the ceiling. The death is quick, non-graphic and portrayed as darkly comical, but it does come as a surprise.
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Family
Does a parent die?
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Elmidq
Not on screen, but in the third half there is a boy whose dead mother is explicitly mentioned.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Elmidq
The person kidnapped does not seem distressed by it. It's comical. He is tied with ropes to a chair, remains calm the whole time.
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Does someone cheat?
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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In the first third rioters suddenly burst through a wall, it's quite loud.
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Is there a shower scene?
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Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Does someone spit?
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Is there audio gore?
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FLady
There is a scene where people are murdered off camera and you can hear a commotion and screaming but not for long
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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Medical
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Elmidq
Someone gets shocked for 2 seconds in an electrical chair. He goes into the chair out of his own desire.
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Elmidq
First third is set in a psychiatric prison. It's lighthearted, none of the guards are mean. There are no nurses or medical staff involved.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
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FLady
It is off camera but mentioned that he stabbed his leg
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deaddogfanclub
During the section of the film which is set in a maximum-security psychiatric prison, a mentally ill prisoner’s history of homicide is discussed. He wears a straitjacket labelled ‘psychopath’. He growls at other characters, and chases one with the intention of killing him.
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Is there misophonia?
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Chel
In the scene where Arthur and Roebuck Wright are discussing Wright's story, a background character can be heard loudly chewing on something crunchy.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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deaddogfanclub
A prisoner gives a speech about his suicidal intentions. He later tries to kill himself in an electric chair.
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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deaddogfanclub
A lot of scenes set in prisons, with one in particular involving a man being locked in a chicken coop. A child is kidnapped and tied up inside a small cupboard.
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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Elmidq
In a re-enacted stage play someone jumps out of a window and is presumed dead.

Someone tries to kill himself in an electrical chair, he immediately changes his mind.
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Is there shakey cam?
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Does a baby cry?
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deaddogfanclub
A character’s death is represented by images flashing in quick succession.
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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Does someone miscarry?
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Is there childbirth?
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Are there abortions?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Prejudice
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deaddogfanclub
No slurs, but a man is imprisoned for being caught with other gay men.
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- sanity-based ableism

- use of "invalid" which is said to be an ableist term

- use of "psychopathic" as an insult, as well as a prison uniform saying "condemned psychopath" in french

- the word "narcissism" used with derogatory intention (because it is used to be oxymoronic/contrasting with "touching")
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Non-derogatory use of ‘negro’.
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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antlersantlers
In the play within one of the stories there is some army-typical misgendering (calling male soldiers “ladies”)
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Are there fat jokes?
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Does the black guy die first?
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Is there hate speech?
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Relationships
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Chel
Lucinda Krementz the journalist is significantly older than Zeffirelli, a student activist. It is implied that they have sex but is not shown on screen.
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Sex
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Chel
Simone is fully nude in a few scenes as a model for Moses' paintings. Zeffirelli is briefly nude after exiting the bathtub to give Lucinda his manifesto. There is a brief, waist-up nude scene between Zeffirelli and Juliette after they have sex.
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Elmidq
A lady poses nude for a painting.
An older woman is half-naked in bed post-sex with a younger (but of age) man.
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Sexism
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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deaddogfanclub
Somewhat sad. The newspaper ceases publication (as we’re told it will from the beginning) and a major character dies.
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Does a car crash?
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deaddogfanclub
Animated, stylised car chase scene ending in a crash.
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Does a plane crash?
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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deaddogfanclub
A character falls and drowns (offscreen). Discussion of bodies being pulled from the river.
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Is there blood/gore?
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Elmidq
In the first third there is a flashback to a murder where blood splashes on screen, but the actual murder isn't shown.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Scenes where rubber bullets are shot at protesters. A couple of scenes with constant, loud gunfire and bullet holes destroying buildings. A child is shot and killed with a gun.
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