The French Dispatch
Movie • 2020 • Comedy
ReportThe 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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Were animals harmed in the making?
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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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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Is there domestic violence?
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A child is kidnapped, but nothing graphic is shown.
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Addiction
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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FLady
Yes a prisoner drinks mouthwash and describes how it is destroying him
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Animal
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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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Is there a dead animal?
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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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Assault
Is someone restrained?
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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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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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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 amputation?
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Brief mention of a man decapitating two others with a meat saw (happens offscreen).
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Does someone have a seizure?
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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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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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Does someone fall to their death?
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A man jumps out of a window. Another falls from a tower and drowns.
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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
Is someone kidnapped?
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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 a parent die?
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Not on screen, but in the third half there is a boy whose dead mother is explicitly mentioned.
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Fear
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In the first third rioters suddenly burst through a wall, it's quite loud.
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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
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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Someone gets shocked for 2 seconds in an electrical chair. He goes into the chair out of his own desire.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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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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Mental Health
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FLady
It is off camera but mentioned that he stabbed his leg
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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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 misophonia?
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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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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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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 a claustrophobic scene?
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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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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.
Someone tries to kill himself in an electrical chair, he immediately changes his mind.
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Noxious
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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deaddogfanclub
A character’s death is represented by images flashing in quick succession.
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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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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Are there homophobic slurs?
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No slurs, but a man is imprisoned for being caught with other gay men.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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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")
- 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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Are there n-words?
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Non-derogatory use of ‘negro’.
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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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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A lady poses nude for a painting.
An older woman is half-naked in bed post-sex with a younger (but of age) man.
An older woman is half-naked in bed post-sex with a younger (but of age) man.
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Are there nude scenes?
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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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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Sexism
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
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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 crash?
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Animated, stylised car chase scene ending in a crash.
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Is there blood/gore?
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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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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 gun violence?
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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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