France
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2h 13m
Directed by Bruno Dumont • Comedy • 2021 • France, Germany, Italy, Belgium • French with English subtitles
Starring Léa Seydoux, Blanche Gardin, Benjamin Biolay
Léa Seydoux brilliantly holds the center of Bruno Dumont’s Cannes Palme d'Or nominated film, which starts out as a satire of contemporary news media before steadily spiraling out into something richer and darker. Set in contemporary Paris, "France" follows a journalist who's high-profile world is turned upside down after she injures a delivery man in a traffic accident.
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