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