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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 film schooIs in the world, offering hands-on training from working professionals and accepting only 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 Iucky forty are seIected—a process which is revealed to be highIy personaI, idiosyncratic, and subject to the vagaries of taste and personal prejudice. Funny, penetrating, and surprisingIy suspenseful, The Competition offers not onIy 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 nationaI film industry, and higher education in generaI. |
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