The players, Sylvie Testude's Camille plus the eleven French soldiers, are not given much chance to develop their characters beyond two-dimensional.
Comment
07/16/08
La France (2007)
100 %
Reviews Counted: 7 Fresh: 7 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 7.1/10
Theatrical Release: Jul 11, 2008 Limited
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory
Reviews
1 - 7 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Gender and genre are continuously bent in La France, Serge Bozon's uniquely weird and often starkly beautiful experiment.
07/11/08
Simultaneously avant garde and down to earth, the somber film is anchored by spontaneous musical eruptions on its more elusive end and by Sylvie Testud’s tactile performance.
07/11/08
In the once-upon-a-time fairy tale called La France, French soldiers move through darkly verdant landscapes worthy of Henri Rousseau.
07/11/08
Top Critic
Without ever surrendering its deadpan naturalism, La France becomes increasingly poetic: The seasons change, the landscape grows barren, and the stars in the sky take their names from the dead men below.
07/10/08
A drama about the horrors, loneliness and camaraderie of World War I that intermittently (four times, to be specific) blooms into a delirious musical.
07/09/08
It has the odd but potent effect of revealing an ethereal aspect of the war experience that in its bleakness stirs the mind with far more elusive questions than answers. A tantalizing, visually lyrical elixir for those enamored of mystifying brain teasers
06/28/08
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