France

Streaming video - 2021

Léa Seydoux brilliantly holds the center of Bruno Dumont’s unexpected, unsettling new film, which starts out as a satire of the contemporary news media before steadily spiraling out into something richer and darker. Never one to shy away from provoking his viewers, Dumont (The Life of Jesus, NYFF35) casts Seydoux as France de Meurs, a seemingly unflappable superstar TV journalist whose career, homelife, and psychological stability are shaken after she carelessly drives into a young delivery man on a busy Paris street. This accident triggers a series of self-reckonings, as well as a strange romance that proves impossible to shake. A film that teases at redemption while refusing to grant absolution, FRANCE is tragicomic and deliciously amb...ivalent—a very 21st-century treatment of the difficulty of maintaining identity in a corrosive culture.

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Genres
Feature films
Published
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kino Lorber 2021.
2022.
Language
French
Other Authors
Bruno Dumont (film director), Benjamin Biolay (actor), Blanche Gardin, Emanuele Arioli, Léa Seydoux
Online Access
A Kanopy streaming video
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Item Description
Title from title frames.
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In Process Record.
Physical Description
1 online resource (streaming video file) (133 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Format
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).