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FRANCE<\/h2>\nFRANCE<\/h2>\n| 2021 – 133′ – Comedy, Drama L\u00e9a Seydoux brilliantly holds the center of Bruno Dumont\u2019s 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 ambivalent\u2014a very 21st-century treatment of the difficulty of maintaining identity in a corrosive culture.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n FRANCE | 2021 – 133′ – Comedy, Drama Written by Bruno Dumont. Directed by Bruno Dumont. Starring L\u00e9a Seydoux (France de Meurs),\u00a0Blanche Gardin (Lou),\u00a0Benjamin Biolay (Fred de Meurs), Emanuele Arioli (Charles Castro), Juliane K\u00f6hler (Mme Arpel), Ga\u00ebtan Amiel (Joseph de Moeurs), Jawad Zemmar (Baptiste) Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 2021, COLCOA French Film Festival […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tafff","category-comedy","category-drama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10838","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=10838"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17900,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10838\/revisions\/17900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWritten by Bruno Dumont.
\nDirected by Bruno Dumont.
\nStarring L\u00e9a Seydoux (France de Meurs),\u00a0Blanche Gardin (Lou),\u00a0Benjamin Biolay (Fred de Meurs), Emanuele Arioli (Charles Castro), Juliane K\u00f6hler (Mme Arpel), Ga\u00ebtan Amiel (Joseph de Moeurs), Jawad Zemmar (Baptiste)
\nOfficial Selection Cannes International Film Festival 2021, COLCOA French Film Festival 2021<\/strong>
\nIn French with English subtitles.
\nA Kino Lorber release|<\/span><\/p>\nWatch now<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"