‘The French Dispatch’ Is The Push I Need To Finally Start Wearing A Beret

Despite all evidence to the contrary, I have a sneaking suspicion that I could pull off a beret. In fact, I’ve never been surer of anything in my life. And fine, you could rightly argue that I’m not exactly a ‘hat guy’; that they immediately lose all appeal at point of contact with my head. But here I am goddammit, along with millions of men across the globe right this very second, hovering over the ‘BUY’ button on the hardest-to-pull-off hat of them all. The cranial equivalent of a soufflé. What’s gotten into me?

Blame it on Wes Anderson. The trailer for his upcoming film, The French Dispatch, is dropping today, and we’ve already been treated to a selection of surprisingly hatless stills in the build-up. But look a little closer and there it is, wrestled tightly atop Owen Wilson’s head: a very, very nice beret. I want and need it.

Fun fact: there are far fewer berets floating around in Wes Anderson’s filmography than you might think. Yes, there’s Jason Schwartzman’s famous red number from Rushmore, and Suzy Bishop’s in Moonrise Kingdom, but that’s it! Crazy, when you think about it. But as we were saying and as you can see, there’s a distinct lack of kooky headwear to be found elsewhere in The French Dispatch’s pre-release screencaps. How long until Twitter bullies them into adding millions of dollars worth of CGI hats in post-production? We give it a few hours.

Anyway, take a look at the new stills below, featuring Timothee Chalamet with a pencil moustache, Bill Murray looking a bit tired and a whole lot more.