Official US Trailer for 'The Empire' Further Wacky French Sci-Fi Comedy

Official US Trailer for ‘The Empire’ Further Wacky French Sci-Fi Comedy

by Alex Billington
January 27, 2025
Supply: YouTube

“The gendarmes on it.” “People are ineffective.” Kino Lorber has lastly revealed an official US trailer for The Empire, the unusual French sci-fi movie from filmmaker Bruno Dumont. After first being unveiled in 2023 and premiering in early 2024, it is solely now getting a US launch beginning in March 2025 – it already opened in Europe final yr and did not do very effectively. We additionally posted the primary French trailer for this manner again in 2023. Dumont’s sci-fi The Empire (known as L’Empire in French) is ready in a quiet fishing village on the Opal Coast in Northern France, and tells the story of a kid who’s apparently so distinctive & peculiar it unleashes a secret battle between extraterrestrial forces of excellent & evil. Starring a really French forged together with Virginie Efira, Lily-Rose Depp, Camille Cottin, Lyna Khoudri, Anamaria Vartolomei, & Fabrice Luchini. This obtained fairly a number of unfavorable and blended evaluations, apparently it’s kind of too kooky and uneven to be a hidden gem. However I gotta say the sci-fi aspect of this nonetheless appears amusing and entertaining – even when it would not all work.

This is the official US trailer (+ poster) for Bruno Dumont’s The Empire, direct from KL’s YouTube:

You’ll be able to rewatch the unique French trailer for Dumont’s The Empire proper right here, for much more footage.

From the banal every day lifetime of a fisherman’s village on the Opal Coast, emerges epic parallel lives of knights from interplanetary kingdoms. Rival clans are engaged in fierce & bloody battle after the announcement of the beginning of Margat, the resurgent Prince, purple and ugly, the Beast of the Finish Instances — situated right here on the Opal Coast, he’s the kid of a younger couple already separated, as is frequent to life in a working class neighbourhood… L’Empire is each written and directed by French filmmaker Bruno Dumont, director of the movies The Lifetime of Jesus, Humanity, Twentynine Palms, Flanders, Hadewijch, Outdoors Devil, Camille Claudel 1915, Slack Bay, Joan of Arc, and France beforehand. Produced by Rachid Bouchareb, Jean Bréhat, Bertrand Faivre, Muriel Merlin, Andrea Paris, and Matteo Rovere. This hasn’t premiered at any festivals or elsewhere, as for as we all know. ARP Sélection initially launched Dumont’s L’Empire in French cinemas first on March thirteenth, 2024 final yr; it additionally premiered on the 2024 Berlin Movie Competition final yr. Kino Lorber will lastly debut The Empire in choose US theaters beginning March seventh, 2025 coming quickly. Who’s curious?