France is a 2021 comedy-drama film written and directed by Bruno Dumont. It stars Léa Seydoux, Blanche Gardin, Benjamin Biolay, Emanuele Arioli, Juliane Köhler, Gaëtan Amiel, Jewad Zemmar and Marc Bettinelli.
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Directed by | Bruno Dumont |
Written by | Bruno Dumont |
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Cinematography | David Chambille |
Edited by | Nicolas Bier |
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Distributed by | ARP Sélection |
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Running time | 134 minutes |
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Language | French |
Box office | $1.3 million[1] |
The film follows the life of a star television journalist caught in a spiral of events that will lead to her downfall. Between drama and comedy, France seeks to compare the intimate and public crisis of a young woman with a portrait of contemporary France.[2] The film had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on 15 July 2021. It was released in France on 25 August 2021 by ARP Selection.
The film is intended in particular to be a satire of the treatment of information by television channels. France de Meurs is a star journalist at a private French television station. Her fame, her way of conceiving reports and programmes, as well as a chain of personal events, will cause a total questioning of her career in media and turn her life upside down, in addition to her struggles with panic attacks and anxiety.
In May 2019, it was announced Léa Seydoux, Blanche Gardin and Benoît Magimel had joined the cast of the film, with Bruno Dumont directing from a screenplay he wrote.[3] In June 2020, the film was re-titled from On a Half Clear Morning to France.[4]
Principal photography began in October 2019.[5][6]
The film had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on 15 July 2021.[7] It was released in France on 25 August 2021 by ARP Selection.[8]
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 66% of 65 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.3/10. The website's consensus reads, "France might have benefited from a more passionate approach to its themes, but Léa Seydoux leads an amusing send-up of celebrity culture."[9] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 57 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[10] In France, the film averages 3.3/5 on AlloCiné from 36 press reviews.[11]
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