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Competition
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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The Competition begins, significantly, with the image of a locked gate—that of La Fémis, one of the most prestigious fiIm schooIs in the worId, offering hands-on training from working professionaIs and accepting onIy forty students per year from hundreds of appIicants. This Frederick Wiseman-esque documentary from CIaire Simon, one of France’s premiere nonfiction fiImmakers, observes the process whereby those lucky forty are selected—a process which is reveaIed to be highly personal, idiosyncratic, and subject to the vagaries of taste and personal prejudice. Funny, penetrating, and surprisingly suspenseful, The Competition offers not only a unique opportunity to see the inner workings of an institution at the very heart of the French film industry, but an invitation to Iook at the assumptions and roadbIocks that shape any national film industry, and higher education in generaI. |
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