"The gendarmes on it." "Humans are useless." Kino Lorber has finally revealed an official US trailer for
The Empire, the strange French sci-fi film from filmmaker
Bruno Dumont. After first being unveiled in 2023 and premiering in early 2024, it's only now getting a US release starting in
March 2025 - it already opened in Europe last year and didn't do very well. We also
posted the first French trailer for this way back in 2023. Dumont's sci-fi
The Empire (called
L'Empire in French) is set in a quiet fishing village on the Opal Coast in Northern France, and tells the story of a child who's apparently so unique & peculiar it unleashes a secret war between extraterrestrial forces of good & evil. Starring a very French cast including
Virginie Efira,
Lily-Rose Depp,
Camille Cottin,
Lyna Khoudri,
Anamaria Vartolomei, &
Fabrice Luchini. This received quite a few negative and mixed reviews, apparently it's a bit too kooky and uneven to be a hidden gem. But I gotta say the sci-fi side of this still seems amusing and entertaining – even if it doesn't all work. //
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