See Fabrice Luchini’s character in Bruno Dumont’s recent film “The Empire”) and a rainbow smock, he is, as we’ve seen in a prologue, from the future. As Iris and Arco become friends, a crew of ...

Bruno Dumont, The Empire, 2024, film still. Courtesy: Kino Lorber Conversely, I was especially pleased when I watched Alain Guiraudie’s latest Misericordia (2024), a philosophical police procedural, a ...

“The Empire” Goes Beyond Good and Evil—to Rural France Bruno Dumont’s action-fantasy satire is all the greater for its loving, quasi-documentary attention to ordinary life.

Bruno Dumont holds his mobile phone to deliver his acceptance speech for the Silver Bear Jury Prize for 'The Empire' (L'Empire) on stage at the Award Ceremony of the 74th Berlinale ...

Bruno Dumont: I like it a lot. It’s a world and a genre that I like because it’s a world that allows me to deal with questions that are harder to deal with in nature. It allows me to go into zones ...

Reveling in galactic absurdity, “The Empire,” the latest from the fiercely unconventional French filmmaker Bruno Dumont, plunks us down in a fishing village in Northern France to witness an ...

Neither of these interpretations of reality are all-encompassing, dealing with their own clichés and reliance on artifice. French filmmaker Bruno Dumont has long been concerned with the cinema’s ...

Reveling in galactic absurdity, “The Empire,” the latest from the fiercely unconventional French filmmaker Bruno Dumont, plunks us down in a fishing village in Northern France to witness an ...

All the content you want and, oh, right, it’s free. Produced by Jean Bréhat and Bertrand Faivre, “ The Empire ” will first be released at New York City’s IFC Center on March 7, with a nationwide ...

Her final movie was to be The Empire, directed by Bruno Dumont. However, she left the film as she called it a ‘dark, sexist, and racist world that was defended’.

In a quiet and picturesque fishing village in Northern France, a very special child is born, unleashing a secret war between extraterrestrial forces of good and evil. In an attempt to restore ...