DIRECTOR/SCREENPLAY: Bruno Dumont
PRODUCERS: Rachid Bouchareb, Jean Bréhat, Muriel Merlin
PRODUCTION CO: 3B Productions 
PHOTOGRAPHY: David Chambille
EDITOR: Nicolas Bier
MUSIC: Christophe
WITH: Léa Seydoux (France de Meurs), Blanche Gardin (Lou), Benjamin Biolay (Fred de Meurs), Emanuele Arioli (Charles Castro), Juliane Köhler (Mme Arpel), Gaëtan Amiel (Joseph de Meurs), Jewad Zemmar (Baptiste), Marc Bettinelli (Lolo), Lucile Roche (Chouchou)

​FESTIVALS: Cannes, Toronto, New York

REVIEWS

“Bruno Dumont… rips furiously into the Internet-juiced mediascape in his new film, France. The title refers both to the country and to a TV journalist, France de Meurs (Léa Seydoux), whose ambitious yet stage-managed reports from war zones - and one-upping confrontations with officials, including France’s President, Emmanuel Macron - are done with one eye on ratings and the other on social media.

These exploits have made her famous, and fame has alienated her from her principles, her emotions, her family, and herself. A minor accident that becomes a major Internet sensation sends her into a tailspin of depression and into another vortex of media attention; real tragedy hits mainly as a photo op. Amid the film’s riotous satire involving tricked-out news and political distortions, Dumont plants a melancholy melodrama of an identity crisis: the television star and the nation are equally unrecognizable to themselves, and equally isolated in the distorting mirrors of their own fabricated images.

​— Richard Brody, New Yorker

FILM SOCIETY SCREENINGS

Palmerston North
Wednesday, 02 August, 6.00pm

Whanganui
Monday, 14 August, 7.00pm

​Auckland 
Monday, 21 August, 6:00pm

Wellington     
Monday, 28 August, 6:15pm

Timaru     
Tuesday, 05 September, 6.00pm

Nelson     
Tuesday, 12 September, 6.00pm

Bigger Picture Ōamaru
​Thursday, 28 September, 7.00pm

Canterbury
​Monday, 09 October, 7.00pm

Hamilton   
Monday, 16 October, 6.00pm

​Carterton   
Friday, 27 October, 7.00pm
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​co-operation with the Institut Français and the Embassy of France