France

Directed by Bruno Dumont

Release Year: 2021
Running time: 133
Country: France, Germany, Italy, Belgium
Language: French with English subtitles
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Directed by: Bruno Dumont
Writer: Bruno Dumont

Léa Seydoux brilliantly holds the center of Bruno Dumont’s unexpected new film, which starts out as a satire of contemporary news media before steadily spiraling out into something richer and darker. Set in contemporary Paris, France stars Seydoux as France de Meurs, a seemingly unflappable superstar TV journalist juggling her studio show, reporting on a distant war, and the rush of family life. Her high-profile world is turned upside down after she injures a delivery man in a traffic accident, triggering a series of self-reckonings and a strange romance that proves impossible to shake. Never one to shy away from provoking his viewers, Dumont’s latest is tragicomic and deliciously ambivalent – a very 21st-century treatment of the difficulty of maintaining identity in a corrosive culture.

Reviews

"A star vehicle for Léa Seydoux, whose acting is these days hitting a new level of richness."

- Jonathan Romney, Screen Daily
 

“Dumont delivers wild twists at a hectic pace, creating a kaleidoscopic frenzy of unreality and turning the daily life of a celebrity into a hallucinatory, media-saturated distortion.”

- Richard Brody, The New Yorker
 

“Dazzling. A fantastically pleasurable cinematic delight… bolstered by one helluva committed Lea Seydoux performance.”

- Nicholas Bell, Ion Cinema
 

“Dumont’s shift across the last decade into outright absurdity, and his exuberant mistrust of form, is grounded by Seydoux’s star persona.”

- Ben Flanagan, In Review
 

"A biting and complex satire on our relationship with the media.”

- Marilou Duponchel, Les Inrockuptibles
 

"Bruno Dumont examines a France that has been hijacked by social media and 24/7 news. A violent satire, shot through with lightning bolts of melodrama, interpreted by Lea Seydoux gone full kamikaze."

- Frédéric Foubert, Premiere
 

"The director offers Léa Seydoux her most resplendent role to date, that of a woman destroyed by the media complex in which she is trapped."

- Murielle Joudet, Le Monde
 

Awards

Official Selection: Cannes Film Festival

 

Official Selection: Toronto Film Festival

 

Official Selection: New York Film Festival

 

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