Francofonia
An elegy for Europe
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DVD Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 27 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 28, 2016
- Originally Released: 2015
- Label: Music Box Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Louis-Do de Lencquesaing | |
Directed by | Aleksandr Sokurov | |
Director of Photography: | Bruno Delbonnel |
Entertainment Reviews:
I will not pretend I understood the meaning of every single image I saw, or that I am fully behind Aleksandr Sokurov's views. But I am very happy to have taken this trip through the Louvre, and he sure is an able and knowledgeable guide.
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ScreenAnarchy
Rating: 4/5 --
This is graceful and provocative filmmaking. It works both as art history and as an account of wartime Paris under German occupation.
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Independent (UK)
This is disjointed and dreary, its power diluted by Sokurov's constant, self-important narration.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: C- --
"Francofonia" is terribly over-directed and seems strange just for the sake of being strange.
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Detroit News
Francofonia (2015) bristles at labeling. The latest whatsit by Russian titan Alexander Sokurov moves comfortably between categories. It stands three paces to the right of the essay film and three paces to the left of the docudrama.
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Hyperallergic
In the grand scheme of things, it's not much, but it's something worth fighting for.
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Boulder Weekly
Rating: 3/5 --
In the end, the film suffers from cultural overload.
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Sydney Morning Herald
Product Description:
A tour of the Louvre serves as a meditation on art in this experimental film, which explores how the museum avoided being plundered during the Nazi occupation of World War II, and depicts the ghost of Napoleon and the spirit of France wandering among the exhibits. Directed by Alexander Sokurov.
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- UPC: 741360539006
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