{"id":16048,"date":"2024-03-19T19:35:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T19:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?p=16048"},"modified":"2025-01-17T18:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T18:45:09","slug":"the-empire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/the-empire-2\/","title":{"rendered":"THE EMPIRE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #660084; font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-16049\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/the-empire-250x341.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/the-empire-250x341.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/the-empire.jpeg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>COMING TO US THEATRES ON MARCH\u00a0 7, 2025,\u00a0 BEFORE A DIGITAL RELEASE.<\/p>\n<h2>THE EMPIRE<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">| 2024 &#8211; 110&#8242; &#8211; Sci-fi, Comedy.<br \/>\nWritten by:\u00a0Bruno Dumont.<br \/>\nDirected by:\u00a0Bruno Dumont.<br \/>\nStarring:\u00a0Brandon Vlieghe,\u00a0Lyna Khoudri,\u00a0Anamaria Vartolomei,\u00a0Camille Cottin,\u00a0Julien Manier, Fabrice Luchini, Bernard Pruvost, Philippe Jore.<br \/>\nOfficial Selection Berlin International Festival 2024. Winner Silver Bear Award.<br \/>\nOfficial Competition\u00a0<strong>TAFFF 2024<\/strong><br \/>\nIn French with English subtitles.<br \/>\nA Kino Lorber release. |<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">It\u2019s the age-old battle of good vs. evil \u2014 or perhaps church vs. monarchy\u00a0 \u2014 in Bruno Dumont\u2018s off-the-wall\u00a0Star Wars\u00a0parody,\u00a0The Empire. Set in the quaint seaside town of Boulogne-sur-Mer, the plot revolves around a \u201cvery special\u201d toddler named Freddy, his lobsterman father (who\u2019s serving the dark side), a beach bunny beauty (who serves the light), a jovial \u201cDarth Vader\u201d surrogate in a court-jester get-up, an ethereal Queen in a hovering hologram\u2026 and a colossal invasion of aliens plotting an imminent Armageddon. Complete with space ships, light sabers, intergalactic battles and CGI architectural monuments,\u00a0The Empire\u00a0delves even deeper into the twisted jocularity of its\u00a0auteur\u00a0filmmaker.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COMING TO US THEATRES ON MARCH\u00a0 7, 2025,\u00a0 BEFORE A DIGITAL RELEASE. THE EMPIRE | 2024 &#8211; 110&#8242; &#8211; Sci-fi, Comedy. Written by:\u00a0Bruno Dumont. Directed by:\u00a0Bruno Dumont. Starring:\u00a0Brandon Vlieghe,\u00a0Lyna Khoudri,\u00a0Anamaria Vartolomei,\u00a0Camille Cottin,\u00a0Julien Manier, Fabrice Luchini, Bernard Pruvost, Philippe Jore. Official Selection Berlin International Festival 2024. Winner Silver Bear Award. Official Competition\u00a0TAFFF 2024 In French with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,13,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coming-soon","category-comedy","category-sci-fi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=16048"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20913,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16048\/revisions\/20913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}