Serge Bozon x 2
A central figure in the collaborative group of critics-turned-filmmakers who emerged from the magazine La Lettre du cinéma, Bozon had his international breakthrough with 2007’s La France, a singular and utterly charming combination of World War I trench drama and sunshine pop musical. See it here, as well as the equally idiosyncratic Tip Top, a comic policier which uncovers some deadly serious facts about France’s colonialist past, and marvel at Bozon’s ability to reinvent cinema by bending familiar genre tropes into new and exotic shapes.
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Tip Top
Directed by Serge Bozon | 106 mins | 2013
Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine Kiberlain star as two odd-couple internal-affairs officers sent to investigate the murder of an Algerian informant in the small French town of Villeneuve, where a local cop launches an investigation of his own into these outs...