In Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, what fictional French city publishes the magazine?

The fictional French city in Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch is Ennui-sur-Blasé.

The 2021 film presents stories from a magazine’s final issue, The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun. Its fictional editorial office operates in Ennui-sur-Blasé, a stylized French city whose name combines the ideas of boredom and world-weariness. The setting supports the film’s mock-journalistic structure and its affectionate portrait of magazine culture.

Bill Murray plays Arthur Howitzer Jr., the magazine’s editor, while Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Léa Seydoux, Frances McDormand, and Jeffrey Wright lead separate story segments. The plot is not a single conventional adventure; it is organized around articles, recollections, and an obituary.

Ennui-sur-Blasé is invented for the film, so it should not be confused with a real French municipality. The magazine’s American connection is also fictional, though it reflects Anderson’s interest in writers and publications associated with The New Yorker.