IndieWire: “The Empire” sees you wading into yet another new genre. What was your relationship with science fiction before you started this project? Bruno Dumont: I like it a lot. It’s a ...

In Bruno Dumont’s sci-fi farce, an alien conflict disrupts a sleepy French village. By Jeannette Catsoulis When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn ...

Of those in theatres now, the most accomplished is also the most unusual: “The Empire,” by Bruno Dumont. Its oddity, evident in the barest descriptions, is so extreme as to threaten to ...

IndieWire: “The Empire” sees you wading into yet another new genre. What was your relationship with science fiction before you started this project? Bruno Dumont: I like it a lot. It’s a world and a ...

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“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.

From our review: 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 ...

and their celestial Queen (Camille Cottin), strive to eliminate the child (read: decapitate it with a lightsabre) while also preventing the 0s from colonizing the souls of humanity. Bruno Dumont, The ...

I assume she means this to be a short tale bearing a moral lesson, in this case about climate change and us. Good to see ...

French filmmaker Bruno Dumont has long been concerned with the cinema’s ability ... None of his recent films are as strange and bewildering as “The Empire,” a science-fiction epic, where the action is ...