''La France'' is a French film directed by

Serge Bozon Serge Bozon (; born 8 November 1972) is a French film director, film critic and actor. Filmography Film director * 1998 : ''L'Amitié'' * 2003 : ''Mods'' * 2007 : '' La France'' * 2013 : '' Tip Top'' * 2017 : '' Madame Hyde'' Actor A ...

, released in 2007. It stars

Sylvie Testud Sylvie Testud (born 17 January 1971) is a French actress hose film career est Actress for '' Fear and Trembling'' (2003), and the European Film Award for Best Actress for '' Lourdes'' (2009). Her other film roles include '' Beyond Silence'' ( ...

and

Pascal Greggory Pascal Greggory (born 8 September 1954) is a French actor. Personal life Greggory is openly gay. He had long-term relationships with Patrice Chéreau and François-Marie Banier. Filmography * '' Les Sœurs Brontë'' (1979) by André Téchiné * ...

. The film won the Prix Jean Vigo in 2007.

Synopsis

During the

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

, Camille (

), a young woman whose husband is away fighting at the front, receives a short letter of break-up from him. Distraught, she decides to join him, but is driven back by the rule of the time which forbids women to move around alone. She has no other recourse than to dress herself up as a man so as to be able to take to the road on foot.

Reception

The film holds an approval rating of 94% based on 16 reviews on

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, with an average rating of 7.38/10. Tim Palmer argues that the film is an example of recent French pop-art cinema, in which mainstream or conventional materials (here, the war film, which Bozon described in interview as the last remaining classical genre in France today) are intermingled and hybridized with intellectual or esoteric designs (such as in Bozon's approach elements of the musical, stylized or watered-down Brechtian alienation devices, deliberate fissures in the logic of the film).Palmer, Tim (2011). ''Brutal Intimacy: Analyzing Contemporary French Cinema'', Wesleyan University Press, Middleton CT. .

References

External links

* French war drama films Western Front (World War I) films Transgender-related films 2007 films Musicals about World War I Films directed by Serge Bozon 2000s French films {{war-drama-film-stub