Blu-ray, DVD Release: France

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Laurence
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Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Feb. 22, 2022
Price: DVD $13.99, Blu-ray $19.99
Studio: Kino Lorber

Léa Seydoux (No Time to Die) holds the center of Bruno Dumont’s (Li’l Quinquin) unexpected, unsettling new comedy-drama, France, which starts out as a satire of the contemporary news media before steadily spiraling out into something richer and darker.

Never one to shy away from provoking his viewers, Dumont casts Seydoux as 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.

No bonus features on this one save for a trailer.

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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.