Bruno Dumont on the Bertolt Brecht quote “If the people and the party disagree, dissolve the people” in France: “That sentence we owe to the journalist.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In the second instalment with Bruno Dumont on France, we discussed the clothes worn by Léa Seydoux, a scene with France and Charles Castro (Emanuele Arioli) in the Alps, repetition and resemblance, the internal self of France (Seydoux) and a song with Christophe, a moment of grace and the cinematic expression of the narrative.
Bruno Dumont on the clothes worn by France (Léa Seydoux): “Well, in a way the costumes (by Alexandra Charles) are doing the same work that the music (by Christophe) is doing on its end. They are participating in the cinematic expression of the narrative.”
France never wears the same expensive designer outfit twice. The slinky jewel-tone dresses, the short skirts, and luxurious turtlenecks are juxtaposed with...
In the second instalment with Bruno Dumont on France, we discussed the clothes worn by Léa Seydoux, a scene with France and Charles Castro (Emanuele Arioli) in the Alps, repetition and resemblance, the internal self of France (Seydoux) and a song with Christophe, a moment of grace and the cinematic expression of the narrative.
Bruno Dumont on the clothes worn by France (Léa Seydoux): “Well, in a way the costumes (by Alexandra Charles) are doing the same work that the music (by Christophe) is doing on its end. They are participating in the cinematic expression of the narrative.”
France never wears the same expensive designer outfit twice. The slinky jewel-tone dresses, the short skirts, and luxurious turtlenecks are juxtaposed with...
- 12/8/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
France Kino Lorber Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net, linked from Rotten Tomatoes by Harvey Karten Director: Bruno Dumont Screenwriter: Bruno Dumont Cast: Léa Seydoux, Blanche Gardin, Benjamin Biolay, Emanuele Arioli, Juliane Köhler, Gaetan Amiel, Jawad Zemmar, Marc Bettinelli Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC,11/18/21 Opens: December 10, 2021 If you watch a news program, a real […]
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- 12/5/2021
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
"Why do you need to be in the spotlight?" Kino Lorber has unveiled an official US trailer for French dark comedy France, which first premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. It also went on to play at the Toronto and New York Film Festivals, and is opening in theaters in the US starting in December. Léa Seydoux brilliantly holds the center of Bruno Dumont's unexpected, unsettling new film, which starts out as a satire of contemporary news media before steadily spiraling out into something richer and darker. A celebrity journalist, juggling her busy career & personal life, has her life over-turned by a freak car accident. The film is described as a "tragicomedy" with plenty of drama, following Seydoux as TV journalist "France de Meurs" who deals with a series of self-reckonings, as well as a strange romance that messes her up. The cast includes Blanche Gardin,...
- 10/26/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
By far the most biting and ironic satire to premiere in Cannes competition this year — a divisive comedy whose cynicism was met with boos at the press screening — Bruno Dumont’s “France” doesn’t want to be liked. That’s more than can be said of its eponymous protagonist, France de Meurs (Léa Seydoux), the country’s top news anchor and a damning representation of the journalist-as-star phenomenon. Picture a cross between Anderson Cooper and Megyn Kelly, an attention-thirsty TV personality who beams when her followers tweet “France for president,” but tears up when a politician insults her backstage, reducing her to nothing more than “a pretty tool” for a profit-seeking news network.
France does a lot of crying, both on camera and off, in France, though Dumont is tricky enough about the tone of this mainstream-media critique — which plays fast and loose with the clichés of classic melodrama, packaged like the cold,...
France does a lot of crying, both on camera and off, in France, though Dumont is tricky enough about the tone of this mainstream-media critique — which plays fast and loose with the clichés of classic melodrama, packaged like the cold,...
- 7/21/2021
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
"France" (aka "On a Half Clear Morning in France") is the new internationally co-produced drama feature, written and directed by Bruno Dumont, starring Léa Seydoux ("No Time To Die"), Blanche Gardin, Benjamin Biolay, Emanuele Arioli, Juliane Köhler, Gaëtan Amiel, Jewad Zemmar and Marc Bettinelli, premiering at the current Cannes Film Festival:
"...'France' chronicles the frenetic life of a famous TV star and journalist who becomes caught in the trappings of celebrity and subsequently overcome by a spiral of events which ultimately lead to her downfall..."
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"...'France' chronicles the frenetic life of a famous TV star and journalist who becomes caught in the trappings of celebrity and subsequently overcome by a spiral of events which ultimately lead to her downfall..."
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- 7/12/2021
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
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