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| 2024 – 110′ – Sci-fi, Comedy. 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 THE EMPIRE | 2024 – 110′ – 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 English subtitles. A Kino Lorber release. | It\u2019s the age-old battle of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,13,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tafff","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":13,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21952,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16048\/revisions\/21952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21262"}],"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}]}}
\nWritten by:\u00a0Bruno Dumont.
\nDirected by:\u00a0Bruno Dumont.
\nStarring:\u00a0Brandon Vlieghe,\u00a0Lyna Khoudri,\u00a0Anamaria Vartolomei,\u00a0Camille Cottin,\u00a0Julien Manier, Fabrice Luchini, Bernard Pruvost, Philippe Jore.
\nOfficial Selection Berlin International Festival 2024. Winner Silver Bear Award.
\nOfficial Competition\u00a0TAFFF 2024<\/strong>
\nIn French with English subtitles.
\nA Kino Lorber release. |<\/span><\/p>\nWATCH NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"