France de Meurs, a seemingly unflappable superstar TV journalist whose career, home life, and psychological stability ar... (more)
France de Meurs, a seemingly unflappable superstar TV journalist whose career, home life, and psychological stability are shaken after she carelessly drives into a young delivery man on a busy Paris street. This accident triggers a series of self-reckonings, as well as a strange romance that proves impossible to shake. A film that teases at redemption while refusing to grant absolution, France is tragicomic and deliciously ambivalent, a very 21st-century treatment of the difficulty of maintaining identity in a corrosive culture. (less)