Zeffirelli

A clear reference to the Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli, known for his adaptations of Shakespearean plays such as The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet. Zeffirelli was born out of wedlock, meaning he couldn't have either of his parents' surnames. His mother wanted it to be Zeffiretti, meaning "little breezes," taken from Mozart's opera Idomeneo. It was misspelled as Zeffirelli on his birth certificate.

Zeffirelli would make a dramatic, likely cumbersome first name in real life, but director Wes Anderson chose it for Timothée Chalamet's character in The French Dispatch.

Pronounced zef-i-REL-ee.