'The French Dispatch' was perhaps the coolest arrival in Cannes red carpet history

The Planet steps. -Day 7. Tilda Swinton, Timothée Chalamet, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody... Wes Anderson's favorite actors climbed the steps of the 74th Cannes Film Festival for the screening of The French Dispatch, this Monday, July 12. All sketched a most offbeat arrival - like the filmmaker himself.

The rise of the steps of July 12, 2021

Some made their appearance in electric 4L - others in motorbikes. But no one could match the arrival of the cast of The French Dispatch, screened this Monday, July 12 at the 74th Cannes Film Festival. The spectators of the event thus saw, amazed, a certain Bill Murray heading by bus towards the red carpet. A coach from which first emerged Wes Anderson, the director of the film, then a slew of internationally renowned actors. Owen Wilson, in a black suit and sunglasses, debriefed Adrien Brody, while Bill Murray, who sported a mask mimicking his lower face, bickered with Benicio Del Toro.

"The French Dispatch", the trailer

Timothée Chalamet's first climb up the stairs

A wind of cool blew on the Croisette, from the David outfit Bowie by Tilda Swinton, between a pink jacket, long green sequined sleeves and an orange skirt, in a golden suit, sunglasses and white shoes by Timothée Chalamet, who was sketching his first climb of the steps there. The 25-year-old actor called Wes Anderson a "great contemporary director", before posing on the steps with Adrien Brody, then being given a standing ovation (from female voices) on the red carpet at the Palais des Festivals... hand in hand hand with Tilda Swinton.

The whole of this merry troop - it included in its ranks Lyna Khoudri, Benicio Del Toro, Adrien Brody, Alexandre Desplat, or Mathieu Amalric - took place in the large hall, not without splitting new jokes. Bill Murray and Benicio Del Toro thus carried on their shoulders Thierry Frémeaux, general delegate of the Cannes Film Festival, arousing at the same time the hilarity of the public. A cast that unanimously declared itself honored to have participated in Wes Anderson's first French film, shot in Angoulême. Mélanie Thierry, the president of the jury of the Caméra d'Or, praised this return to dark rooms a few minutes earlier. "We are living in very moving moments, she said on the red carpet. The works are very courageous." Or, sometimes, very offbeat.