Description: Note this movie is in French with English subtitles. At the end of the 1950s, celebrated French documentarian François Reichenbach (F for Fake, Portrait: Orson Welles), whose lens captured the likes of Brigitte Bardot and Johnny Hallyday, spent eighteen months traveling the United States, documenting its diverse regions, their inhabitants and their pastimes. The result, America is Seen by a Frenchman, is a wide-eyed - perhaps even naïve - journey through a multitude of different Americas, filtered through a French sensibility and serving as a fascinating exploration of a culture that is both immediately familiar and thoroughly alien. Prison rodeos; Miss America pageants; visits to Disneyland and a school for striptease; a town inhabited solely by twins; rows of newborns in incubators, like products on an assembly line - all these weird and wondrous sights, and more, are captured, sans judgment, by Reichenbach's camera, aided by whimsical narration (provided by, among others, Jean Cocteau) and a jaunty musical score by the late, great Michel Legrand (Une femme est une femme). Titled L'Amérique insolite - literally "unusual America" - in its native tongue, America as Seen by a Frenchman lovingly renders the various eccentricities of Americana circa the mid-twentieth century, and proves the old adage that reality really is stranger than fiction.
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Music Artist: Michel Legrand
Case Type: Blu-ray Case
Rating: NR
Subtitle Language: English
Sub-Genre: Travel
Director: François Reichenbach
Studio: Arrow Films
Edition: Special Edition
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Type: Movie
Region Code: Blu-ray: A (Americas, Southeast Asia...)
Format: Blu-ray
Language: French
Release Year: 2020
Producer: Pierre Braunberger
Actor: Jean Cocteau
Features: Widescreen
Genre: Documentary
Run Time: 90
Movie/TV Title: America as Seen by a Frenchman (1960 film)
Season: 1
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
