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France Against Robots
France Against Robots
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139 Ratings

FRANCE AGAINST ROBOTS

La France Contre Les Robots

Directed by Jean-Marie Straub
Switzerland, 2020
Avant-Garde, Short

Synopsis

At dusk, a man walks alone by a lake and the camera follows him. Then he comes out of his silence and lets hear, as announced by the credits, an extract from the first chapter of Georges Bernanos’ essay La France contre les robots (1944).

Synopsis

At dusk, a man walks alone by a lake and the camera follows him. Then he comes out of his silence and lets hear, as announced by the credits, an extract from the first chapter of Georges Bernanos’ essay La France contre les robots (1944).