France (Blu-ray)

Directed by : Bruno Dumont

Cast : Léa Seydoux, Blanche Gardin, Benjamin Biolay, Emanuele Arioli

Available Date : 02/22/2022

Release Year : 2021

Running Time : 133

UPC : 738329257569

Country : France, Germany, Italy, Belgium

Language: French with English subtitles

Genre : Drama, Dark Comedy, World Cinema

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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.

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Publish Date : 2022-01-25

Cast

Bruno Dumont - Director

Bruno Dumont - Writer

Léa Seydoux - Actor
Blanche Gardin - Actor
Benjamin Biolay - Actor
Emanuele Arioli - Actor

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