{"id":17547,"date":"2024-08-06T19:59:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T19:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?page_id=17547"},"modified":"2024-10-02T15:44:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T15:44:16","slug":"the-empire","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/the-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"THE EMPIRE – L’Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"
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THE EMPIRE<\/h1>\n

(L’Empire)<\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1727396882419{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

CINEMA COMPETITION
\n<\/strong>TRUFFAUT THEATRE
\nComedy \/ Sci-Fi<\/strong><\/p>\n

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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 2<\/strong>
\n10:20 pm<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”10″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/order-tickets.jpg” image_size=”full” link=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.eventive.org\/schedule” align=”center”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1727486540392{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

Presented in association with:
\n<\/b>Kino Lorber
\nMemento International
\n<\/b><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1727200193333{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]North American Premiere<\/span><\/strong> |\u00a0France, Germany, Italy, Belgium\u00a0|\u00a02024\u00a0|\u00a0Comedy, Sci-Fi |\u00a0110\u00a0min\u00a0|\u00a0In French with English subtitles
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\nDirected by: <\/strong>Bruno Dumont
\nWritten by: <\/strong>Bruno Dumont
\nProduced by: <\/strong>Jean Br\u00e9hat (Tessalit Productions), Bertrand Faivre, Emma Binet (Furyo Films), Dorothe Beinemeier (Red Balloon Film), Matteo Rovere & Andrea Paris (Ascent Film), Olivier Dubois (Novak Prod), Joaquim Sapinho & Marta Alves (Rosa Filmes), Fabrizio Mosca.
\nCinematography:\u00a0<\/strong>David Chambille
\nFilm Editing:<\/strong> Bruno Dumont,\u00a0Desideria Reyner
\nCast: <\/strong>Lyna Khoudri (Line),\u00a0Anamaria Vartolomei (Jane),\u00a0Camille Cottin (The Queen),\u00a0Brandon Vlieghe (Jony),\u00a0Julien Manier (Rudy), Fabrice Luchini (Belz\u00e9buth), Bernard Pruvost (Van der Weyden), Philippe Jore (Carpentier)
\nInternational Sales: <\/strong>Memento International
\nUS Distributor:<\/strong> Kino Lorber Films
\nUS Release date:<\/strong> 2025<\/p>\n

It’s the age-old battle of good vs. evil \u2014 or perhaps church vs. monarchy\u00a0 \u2014 in Bruno Dumont<\/strong>‘s off-the-wall Star Wars<\/em> parody, The Empire<\/em><\/strong>. Set in the quaint seaside town of Boulogne-sur-Mer, the plot revolves around a “very special” toddler named Freddy, his lobsterman father (who’s serving the dark side), a beach bunny beauty (who serves the light), a jovial “Darth Vader” surrogate in a court-jester get-up, an ethereal Queen in a hovering hologram… and a colossal invasion of aliens plotting an imminent Armageddon. Complete with space ships, light sabers, intergalactic battles and CGI architectural monuments, The Empire<\/em> delves even deeper into the twisted jocularity of its auteur<\/em> filmmaker.<\/p>\n

Philosophy professor-turned-filmmaker Bruno Dumont<\/strong> took the cinema world by storm with his first film, La vie de J\u00e9sus<\/em> (COLCOA 1998), which won the coveted Cam\u00e9ra d\u2019or at Cannes and the Prix Jean Vigo. His films have garnered countless prizes the world over, and he continues to be a favorite at Cannes, where Humanity<\/em> (1999) walked away with an unheard of three trophies \u2014 \u00adthe Grand Jury Prize and both Best Actor and Best Actress Awards; Flandres<\/em> (COLCOA 2007) nabbed the Grand Jury Prize, yet again; and Jeanne<\/em> (2019) won the Un Certain Regard Award.\u00a0 Other titles include Twenty-nine Palms<\/em> (2003), Hadewijch<\/em> (2009), Outside Satan<\/em> (2011), Camille Claudel 1915<\/em> (2013) and Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc<\/em> (2017). Dumont’s decidedly bleak vision has more recently turned to farce, with Slack Bay<\/em> (COLCOA 2017), France<\/em> (COLCOA 2021), and the mini-series Li\u2019l Quinquin<\/em> (2014) and Coincoin and the Extra-Humans<\/em> (2018). The Empire<\/em><\/strong> premiered at this year\u2019s Berlin Film Festival, where it was awarded the Silver Bear Jury Prize.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/l-empire.jpg” image_size=”full” frame_style=”gray_border” align=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1725672109950{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] THE EMPIRE (L’Empire) [\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1727396882419{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] CINEMA COMPETITION TRUFFAUT THEATRE Comedy \/ Sci-Fi \u00a0 [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1727396924293{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] SATURDAY NOVEMBER 2 10:20 pm [\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”10″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/order-tickets.jpg” image_size=”full” link=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.eventive.org\/schedule” align=”center”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1727486540392{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] Presented in association with: Kino Lorber Memento International [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17547","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17547"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19344,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17547\/revisions\/19344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}