{"id":16381,"date":"2024-05-10T16:37:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T16:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?p=16381"},"modified":"2025-06-12T18:29:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T18:29:19","slug":"the-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/the-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"THE COMPETITION"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 data-wp-editing=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-16382\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/competition-243x350.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/competition-243x350.jpeg 243w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/competition-600x865.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/competition.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #674ea7; font-size: xx-large;\">THE COMPETITION<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">| 2020 &#8211; 121&#8242; &#8211; DOCUMENTARY.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Written by: Claire Simon<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Directed by:\u00a0Claire Simon.<br \/>\nStarring:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Alain Bergala,\u00a0Emilie Deleuze,\u00a0Xanae Bove,\u00a0Emmanuel Chaumet<br \/>\nOfficial Selection Venice International Film Festival 2016.<br \/>\nIn French with English subtitles.<br \/>\nA Metrograph release. |<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\" font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">The Competition\u00a0begins, significantly, with the image of a locked gate\u2014that of La F\u00e9mis, one of the most prestigious film schools in the world, offering hands-on training from working professionals and accepting only forty students per year from hundreds of applicants. This Wiseman-esque documentary from Simon, one of France\u2019s premiere nonfiction filmmakers, observes the process whereby those lucky forty are selected\u2014a process which is revealed to be highly personal, idiosyncratic, and subject to the vagaries of taste and personal prejudice. Funny, penetrating, and surprisingly suspenseful,\u00a0<\/span>The Competition<span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">\u00a0offers not only a unique opportunity to see the inner workings of an institution at the very heart of the French film industry, but an invitation to look at the assumptions and roadblocks that shape any national film industry, and higher education in general.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/kinonow.com\/film\/the-competition\/5e90ab3d88724e0001f3fbdb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH NOW\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE COMPETITION | 2020 &#8211; 121&#8242; &#8211; DOCUMENTARY. Written by: Claire Simon. Directed by:\u00a0Claire Simon. Starring:\u00a0Alain Bergala,\u00a0Emilie Deleuze,\u00a0Xanae Bove,\u00a0Emmanuel Chaumet Official Selection Venice International Film Festival 2016. In French with English subtitles. A Metrograph release. | The Competition\u00a0begins, significantly, with the image of a locked gate\u2014that of La F\u00e9mis, one of the most prestigious film [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,122,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-documentary","category-films-about-cinema","category-women-directors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16381","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=16381"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18218,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16381\/revisions\/18218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}