France de Meurs, a seemingly unflappable superstar TV journalist whose career, home life, 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.
directed by Bruno Dumont.
Title from sell sheet.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2021.
Wide screen.
Bonus feature: trailers.
Lea Seydoux, Blanche Gardin, Benjamin Biolay, Emanuele Arioli.
DVD, wide screen.
French dialogue; English subtitles.
