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Léa Seydoux brilliantly holds the center of Bruno Dumont’s 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—a very 21st-century treatment of the difficulty of maintaining identity in a corrosive culture.
Original Release
08/25/2021
US Release
12/10/2021
Cast
Name | Character |
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Léa Seydoux | France de Meurs |
Blanche Gardin | Lou |
Benjamin Biolay | Fred de Meurs |
Juliane Kohler | Mme Arpel |
Gaëtan Amiel | Jo / Joseph de Meurs |
Jawad Zemmar | Baptiste |
Marc Bettinelli | Lolo |
Lucile Roche | Chouchou |
Noura Benbahlouli | La mère de Baptiste |
Abdellah Chahouat | Le père de Baptiste |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Léa Seydoux | France de Meurs |
Blanche Gardin | Lou |
Benjamin Biolay | Fred de Meurs |
Juliane Kohler | Mme Arpel |
Gaëtan Amiel | Jo / Joseph de Meurs |
Jawad Zemmar | Baptiste |
Marc Bettinelli | Lolo |
Lucile Roche | Chouchou |
Noura Benbahlouli | La mère de Baptiste |
Abdellah Chahouat | Le père de Baptiste |
Alfred de Montesquiou | Alex |
Kristian Feigelson | Visiteur I |
Nabil Wakim | Journaliste I 1 |
François-Xavier Ménage | Journaliste I 2 |
Tristan Sadeghi | Abdoul, l'interprète pays arabe |
Hugues Pluvinage | Le gradé armée française |
Michele Leucci | Perchman I |
Amine Halim | Interprète touareg |
Youannes Mohammed | Chef tribal touareg |
Mohamed Mellah | Guide pays arabe |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Dorothe Beinemeier | Producer |
Marcantonio Borghese | Producer |
Rachid Bouchareb | Producer |
Jean Bréhat | Producer |
Carlos Gerstenhauer | Producer |
Genevieve Lemal | Producer |
Muriel Merlin | Producer |
Fabrizio Mosca | Producer |
Andrea Paris | Producer |
Bettina Ricklefs | Producer |
Matteo Rovere | Producer |
Harald Steinwender | Producer |
Ines Vasiljevic | Producer |
Erik Luna | Producer |