France

French satirical drama starring Léa Seydoux (The French Dispatch) as a celebrity journalist whose life is overturned when she causes a traffic accident. Benjamin Biolay and Blanche Gardin co-star. Directed and written by Bruno Dumont (Camille Claudel, 1915), France premiered in competition at Cannes in 2021.

"France de Meurs is a famous journalist, beloved by all, a media star known for the sensational stories she reports for a 24 hour news channel. As is often the case during a meteoric media rise, the fall is brutal. What TV viewers see as an original, daring and raw look at reality, France suddenly comes to see as charade, filter, theatre. With France, Bruno Dumont brings to the screen the disillusion of a woman sucked in by a hyper-connected, bloated and unhealthy system. He makes an acerbic and biting critique of the milieu of news journalism, where the real seems to be presented as such but is in fact reconstructed, reworked and staged..." (Manon Ruffel, festival-cannes.com)

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