Film Screening: France (Bruno Dumont • 2021)

Join Canterbury Film Society for our Monday night screening of France (Bruno Dumont • 2021 • 133 mins • France • M)

“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... ​— Richard Brody, New Yorker

The Canterbury Film Society offers weekly screenings of top-quality films – arthouse, classic, cult, documentary, world cinema and more – on the big screen. We screen on Monday night at 7.30pm, doors open 7.00pm with drinks and home-baked food for purchase.

This is a Film Society Members Only screening - but new members are warmly welcome. Go to www.canterburyfilmsociety.org.nz to see membership options (including 3-film Flexipasses for $40, as well as Half Year and Full Membership). Join and pay online, or bring along cash (eftpos not available) and sign up at the membership table before the film.

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