I just got my next Criterion Blu-Ray but as i was bored of English and American Romances, I figured I'd take a detour - I stumbled onto this one from TV5 Le Monde, part of the French channel package on Sling which I had signed up for because I hoped to understand French better by listening - by and large, it hasn't worked because most of their stuff doesn't have English Subtitles
BUT this one did - it's a fascinating movie - (that would have American remake potential easily) - A young woman is recruited by a far right political party to run for mayor - the Leader and Name of the party are thinly veiled versions of Marine Le Pen and the National Front - she also falls in with one of the more extreme elements of that party, and finds the consequences of being in neighborhoods where she may not be as popular
I enjoyed it - I know enough of French politics and culture where I wasn't lost, and it was made in 2017, so it was a pretty recent film - the English Title is "This is Our Land" - the parallels to the US are almost mind blowing but then, faux populism is popular these days
Not sure how easy it is to find outside of the Le Monde channel - but thought I'd throw it on here because I enjoyed it quite a bit
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