31 July 2008
Interview with Serge Bozon, director, La France
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Jason Di Rosso spoke to French filmmaker Serge Bozon, director of La France, which is screening at the Melbourne International Film festival.
It's about a group of French soldiers in World War I, wandering the countryside near the front lines. We don't know at first where they're headed, what they're mission is -- but they're joined by a young woman, disguised as a boy, whose objective is clear: she's trying to reach her husband's regiment and find out why he doesn't want to receive her letters anymore. It's like a road movie set in fields and forests, crossed with a musical as the soldiers break into wistful love songs composed in a sixties pop style (director Serge Bozon is a great fan of that decade). The result is a highly original, poetic war movie -- up there with the best in the genre.
