La France (film)


La France is a French film directed by Serge Bozon, released in 2007. It stars Sylvie Testud and Pascal Greggory. The film won the Prix Jean Vigo in 2007.

Synopsis

During the First World War, 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 review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 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 are intermingled and hybridized with intellectual or esoteric designs.