La France
Serge Bozon
Autumn 1917. A long way away the war is at its heights. At the home front, Camille, a young woman, lives to rhythm of the news from her husband away fighting. But one day, she receives a short break-up letter. Shaken and ready to do anything, she decides to dress as a man to go and join him. She goes to the front, using side roads to avoid the vigilance of the gendarmerie. In a forest, she encounters a small platoon of soldiers who don't suspect her real identity.
With : Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory, Guillaume Verdier, François Négret, Laurent Talon, Pierre Léon, Benjamin Esdraffo, Didier Brice, Laurent Lacotte
Screenplay : Axelle Ropert, Serge Bozon
Image : Céline Bozon
Editing : François Quiqueré
Music : Benjamin Esdraffo, Laurent Talon, Mehdi Zannad
Screenplay : Axelle Ropert, Serge Bozon
Image : Céline Bozon
Editing : François Quiqueré
Music : Benjamin Esdraffo, Laurent Talon, Mehdi Zannad
Production : Les Films Pelléas, Centre Images, Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC)
Distribution: Shellac
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Distribution: Shellac
https://www.shellac-altern.org/
2007 Jean Vigo prizewinner La France shows a little more Serge Bozon's singular talent in the world of French cinema. The context of the Great War (which remains off screen), and the instability it creates in the soldiers, serves as a backdrop for a more intimate story. J-P Tessé said that “by marrying two timeframes (the lost walk and the sung pause), the film reinvents the gentle, romantic inspiration which, although deeply eccentric, brings back a flush of colour to the cheeks of French cinema, without a show of strength, without stray bullets, by with the simple formula for a reverie: err + air” (Chronic'Art).