France
- sombre
- bleak
- cold
Sombre, steady, measured drama / satire, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →A celebrity journalist, juggling her busy career and personal life, has her life over-turned by a freak car accident.
Our read · France (2021) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive drama · satire · media entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of France
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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