France

Film - 2021

6,5

39.5K

France it's a movie with Léa Seydoux, Blanche Gardin, Benjamin Biolay, Emanuele Arioli, Juliane Köhler Full cast. Directed by Bruno Dumont. Original title France, runtime 133 minutes. Genres Commedia, Drama.

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Il Buio In Sala - Giuseppe Armellini

I didn't even know whether to write this review in the end. Many days gone by, the feeling that maybe it was me who didn't understand this film and my idiosyncrasy in speaking badly about films suggested that I avoid it. Yet, despite almost certainly knowing that I am in the wrong, my convictions are too strong for which I believe that France is a film well thought out and poorly made. And every now and then writing about things that don't like or "don't add up" I think is stimulating (at least for who writes, I don't know for you). The funny thing is that anything I write will be countered by those who loved the film with: "Look, idiot, it was all intentional, eh". No, not everything, with arrogance I can say that certainly not everything was intentional. First of all I must say that I don't know Dumont, a cult director from whom I absolutely must recover as many things as possible. My Dumont is limited to that sort of divertissement that was Ma Loute (from memory I liked it a lot but I have to check again) and to this good wrong film that is France. Good wrong film. Yes because France is a bomb when telling it. It's a bomb for the themes it has inside, it's a bomb for the main character, it's a bomb for how interesting it is. And yet it has a problem, that is, to give the tremendous sensation that the grotesque and the exaggerations it contains are not the result of expertise but of inexperience. The grotesque is not a minus, but a plus. In the sense that to do the grotesque you must have more ability, not less. Otherwise we can define all amateur films as grotesque, even those made by acquaintances, and that's it. No, a grotesque plot, a grotesque character and grotesque scenes are the result of great writing and acting skills. Because in this genre many styles and many readings are mixed, the grotesque is the largest matryoshka of many Read all

Davide Bianchera

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A celebrity journalist, juggling her busy career and personal life, has her life over-turned by a freak car accident.