Twenty-four hours in the life of Radio France, from one dawn to another.
By being content simply to gaze impassively at its subject, La Maison de la Radio simply doesn't get close to the heart of this particularly fascinating home.
The profundity and poeticism was lost on us.
A more daring film might even have gone for a more experimental collage of sounds. Well: an interesting study of something similar to our own Radio 4.
[The director's] admiration for Radio France's work and public-service ethos is self-evident, but this is a very hard film for a non-French audience to engage with.
A documentary about the great French radio station is intimate and affectionate.
Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow from Friday January 30, 2015, until Sunday February 1, 2015. More info: http://www.glasgowfilm.org/theatre/
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