France
ARP Sélection | Release Date: December 10, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews
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12
Negative:
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
The Irish TimesTara BradyJan 2, 2023
We’re accustomed to Dumont leapfrogging from one genre to another, but he has seldom attempted so many swerves and shifts as he manages here. Read full review
90
Film ThreatRay LoboDec 10, 2021
Most of us are aware of the “production” inherent in television news. Dumont presents to us the contradiction and spurs us on, in Brechtian fashion, to try to resolve it. Read full review
83
The Film StageDavid KatzJul 20, 2021
Though France holds water as a black comedy and faintly realistic character study, hitting plausible yet predictable satirical targets, what makes it a good, characteristic Dumont film is its sense of experimentation. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesMark OlsenDec 10, 2021
In part because of the depth of Seydoux’s performance, the film becomes less an allegory of a nation and more a gripping character study, a portrait of a mask of personal and professional regard slowly slipping away. Read full review
79
Paste MagazineNatalia KeoganDec 10, 2021
Whatever it’s trying to say, France rewards those who are willing to take the journey without a promise of clear resolution. Read full review
75
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanJan 26, 2022
Dumont is clearly critiquing the way we mediate life via screens, large and small. There are times in this rambling story when the filmmaker’s point isn’t quite as obvious, but that’s only because he has a habit of trying to jab several moving targets with a sharp stick all at the same time. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsJan 21, 2022
Even when it’s outlining its own ideas more through rhetoric than character, France keeps us on our toes regarding what’s around the corner. Seydoux’s the chief but hardly the only reason to find out. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleJan 6, 2022
In “France,” Dumont has not created a commentary on modern life, so don’t approach the movie looking for that. He’s made a movie about the consequences of modern life for one person, a portrait of contemporary mores as seen from the inside. Read full review
75
The PlaylistElena LazicJul 16, 2021
Through the character of France, Dumont crafts an entertaining critique of the media more interesting for its formal and stylistic oddities than for its arguments, especially in the way he radically slows down a usually frenetic world. Read full review
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