Review of France

I like Lea Seydoux, and there is certainly plenty of beautiful shots of her face in this movie. However, the movie is failure in general, although the idea is powerful. A celebrity TV reporter becomes affected by the stories she is making, and her life becomes a mess. In the end she accepts that she is what she is and she will never be happy or sad, wrong or right, it is just what she does: looking for and creating sensationalism. The idea is to make the main character, France, a tragic character, but somehow everything in this movie is unconvincing, pretentious and, in a word, a failed mixed of melodrama and arthouse movie. In the first place, the movie is too long, and there is a lot of pointless scenes, to be honest. There are some powerful points, hints, suggestions, etc, but in general, they don's hang well together in the movie, they are simply tiring. Pity, they wasted a good idea, and for sure, a top celebrity among French actresses, who somehow, in spite of the bad movie, was actually a perfect choice for the role. Still the movie is disappointment.