My favourite film of 2021: longvoyage.substack.com/p/the-best-films-of-2021?s=w
Bruno Dumont’s France is, in one sense, one of his most accessible and palatable films, tinged with the satirical, comic, and melodramatic, and far removed from both the bleak austerity that characterizes much of his work as well as the more playfully experimental flourishes of his more recent work. Or is it? France is almost like a movie in a disguise of sorts. It is 2021’s most confounding and original film. It oscillates between…