2019
Not Rated
Metrograph Pictures
2 h 1 m

2019
Not Rated
Metrograph Pictures
2 h 1 m

Summary The Competition begins, significantly, with the image of a locked gate—that of La Fémis, one of the most prestigious film schools in the world, offering hands-on training from working professionals, accepting only 40 students per year from hundreds of applicants. This Wiseman-esque documentary from Claire Simon, one of France’s premiere ...

Documentary

Directed By: Claire Simon

2019
Not Rated
Metrograph Pictures
2 h 1 m

2019
Not Rated
Metrograph Pictures
2 h 1 m

The Competition

Name: The Competition
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2019-02-22
Duration: 2 min 1 s
Rating: 69
Cast: Alain Bergala, Xanaë Bove, Emmanuel Chaumet, Claire Childeric, Michaël Dacheux

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews

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Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews

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Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews

82% Positive
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The Film Stage

Feb 21, 2019

Simon explores the extent to which both student and juror care about film, the occasional myopia when it comes to certain advisable standards of political correctness, and the casual way in which some hilariously denigrating remarks can be made.

By Ryan Swen FULL REVIEW

The Observer (UK)

Feb 21, 2019

Simon’s fly-on-the-wall mode is a distancing tool, but shouldn’t be confused with ambivalence. Exposing the mechanics of decision-making is an implicit reproof of increasing conservatism, both of La Fémis itself and the film-makers they are producing.

By Simran Hans FULL REVIEW

The New Yorker

Feb 21, 2019

Seeing, in Simon’s documentary, the directing candidates forced to analyze a scene, submit a dossier, step on a set and direct a dictated scene, is like watching the training of hired hands rather than original artists—people better suited to writing grant applications than scripts, better suited to following orders than creating new worlds, to playing the urbane part of a director in meetings and interviews than actually being one.

By Richard Brody FULL REVIEW

Slant Magazine

Feb 21, 2019

Claire Simon knows that the best way to capture the anxiousness of a moment is to leave it unembellished.

By Diego Semerene FULL REVIEW

IndieWire

Feb 22, 2019

What The Competition considers a deliciously exciting rite of passage, viewers might interpret as a kind of cultural rot. The truth likely falls somewhere in between, as Simone’s documentary is too gripping to be dismissed, and too queasy to be accepted.

By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW

The A.V. Club

Feb 20, 2019

Though The Competition lacks critical distance, what it offers, in spades, is the engrossing experience of watching other people endure pressure and humiliation — a thrill not unlike that of addictive reality TV, though one presumes that everyone involved would retch at the comparison.

By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky FULL REVIEW

The Playlist

Feb 21, 2019

Unfocused and unpolished, “Le Concours” might’ve been fared better if one of the prospective students picked up the camera instead.

By Oktay Ege Kozak FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Andolfi, Mouvement, Ciné+, Collectivité Territoriale de la Corse, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)

Release Date Feb 22, 2019

Duration 2 h 1 m

Rating Not Rated

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Tagline The daily life of the Parisian cinema school, la Fémis

Website http://widehouse.org/film/place-aux-jeunes/

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Awards

True/False Film Fest

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

Venice Film Festival

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

London Film Festival

• 1 Nomination

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Alain Bergala

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Xanaë Bove

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Emmanuel Chaumet

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Claire Childeric

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Michaël Dacheux

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Joël Danet

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Emilie Deleuze

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Marie-Christine Desandré

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Christel Dewynter

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Olivier Ducastel

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Jacques Déniel

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Sophie Fillières

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Pascale Granel

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Cyril Holtz

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Jacques Kermabon

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Laetitia Masson

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Patricia Mazuy

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Thomas Ordonneau

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Judith Revault d'Allones

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Sabrina Seyvecou

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