How to talk about Bruno Dumont?

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Between the brooding, overcast skies of LA VIE DE JESUS (1997) and the molten media-sploitation of FRANCE (2021), French filmmaker Bruno Dumont has worn many (often contradictory) hats. But for this one-time enfant terrible of French arthouse cinema, a persistent thread can be carefully picked out. And to begin the work of that tangled unpicking, the boys enlist the support of arch Dumontian George MacBeth. Together, they embark on a careening, freestyle foray through the land of Dumont - from verbal tics and inflating stomachs to car crashes and divinely levitating coppers. It’s an in-depth and necessary look at one of contemporary cinema’s most thrilling auteurs. Strap yourselves in: this is ‘Slow and Furious: Normandy Drift’.