This Is Our Land

Product Description

Marine Le Pen was defeated in the French election that brought Emmanuel Macron to power, but her far right-wing party, with its nationalist, anti-immigrant platform, lives on to feed the fear and resentment that begot Donald Trump s election. THIS IS OUR LAND is a fictionalized story of an attractive working-class single mother in the North of France who naively agrees to run for mayor, representing the Patriotic Bloc. Lucas Belvaux, who previously directed RAPT, about a French politician s kidnapping, deals with another type of kidnapping here: With the help of a charming André Dussollier as the town s esteemed physician, the Populists rhetoric seizes control of the minds of the electorate. With Catherine Jacobs as the blonde-bobbed leader who never met an angry crowd she couldn t make angrier.

Review

A chillingly plausible version of a society slowly poisoning itself. --Village Voice

A gutsy, discomfiting movie about going along to get along, and just how dangerous that impulse can be. --AV Club

Essential viewing. --Film Inquiry