Film Screening: France (Bruno Dumont • 2021 • M)

Join Canterbury Film Society for our screening of Bruno Dumont satirical examination of 24-hour news culture, France (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: 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

Check out the trailer: FRANCE Trailer - YouTube

This is a Film Society Members Only screening - so go to [www.canterburyfilmsociety.org.nz ](https://www.canterburyfilmsociety.org.nz/)to see membership options (including 3-film Flexipasses for $40) and then join/pay online. Or bring along cash (eftpos not available) and sign up at the membership table before 7.20pm. Film starts at 7.30pm.

You'll find host Barbara at Fiddlestick Bar across the road from 6.30 to welcome Meetup members who would like to meet-up before the film.

The Film Society is a sociable group of film-lovers of all ages and we regularly welcome new members. Doors open at 7.00pm and you can mingle in the foyer (home baked treats and drinks available - please bring cash).

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