Bruno Dumont’s peculiar blend of the transcendental with a clumsy kind of realism was a natural fit to “Jeannette” and “Joan of Arc,” both films dealing with the same presumed miracle — an ordinary little girl claiming to be guided by Saints.
That mix takes on a more ambiguous aura in “France,” which premiered in Competition at this year’s Festival de Cannes and centers on a news host going through a different but not entirely dissimilar sort of spiritual/existential crisis about what she does for a living and who she is.
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