Synopsis
This Is Our Land (Chez nous, 2017) is a French-Belgian drama from Lucas Belvaux you can watch online on iFILM. Pauline, a home-care nurse in France's industrial north, raises two kids alone while looking after her aging father, a former steelworker.
Her patients adore her and whole streets trust her — which is exactly what the operatives of a far-right party notice. They ask Pauline to be their face in the upcoming municipal vote. A woman with no taste for politics slowly turns into a convenient shopfront for someone else's agenda, and it takes her a while to grasp what she's been drawn into. Émilie Dequenne plays it in half-tones, with André Dussollier as a smooth local doctor-ideologue and Guillaume Gouix alongside.
Belvaux made an uneasy film about how nationalism dresses up as care for ordinary people and slips in through sympathy rather than slogans. No editorializing, no verdicts — just an observation that gets under your skin. One for anyone who follows European political drama. Stream This Is Our Land (2017) online on iFILM.
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