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The Empire
Directed by
Bruno Dumont
Not Rated
2025
1h 50m
Comedy
,
Science Fiction
,
and more
5.1
59%
87%
4.9
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A small village of Northern France is the battleground of undercover extraterrestrial knights.
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Cast of The Empire
Lyna Khoudri
Line
Anamaria Vartolomei
Jane
Camille Cottin
La Reine
Fabrice Luchini
Belzébuth
Brandon Vlieghe
Jony
Julien Manier
Rudy
Bernard Pruvost
Van der Weyden
Philippe Jore
Carpentier
Annie Tardivon
Mère de Jony
Marie Vasez
Lou
Cédric Fortin
Roland Deroo
Annick Lefevre
Gisèle, mère de Rudy
Tony Devanne
Ami Rudy #1 éberlué
Giovanny Dupetit
Ami Rudy #2 (en larmes)
Giovanni Boutillier
Ami Rudy #3 (malin)
Olivier Delattaignant
Gros baigneur décapité
Bruno Darras
Gendarme #1
Gino Evrard
Gendarme #2
Annick Bultel
Dame course Deroo
Natacha Oliviera Da Costa
Journaliste
The Empire Ratings & Reviews
FilmWeek (LAist)
Tim Cogshell
It's funny if you're willing to fall into its ridiculousness. I cracked up all the way through.
Arts Fuse
Steve Erickson
The Empire's satiric vision is clear.
National Review
Armond White
Every Star Wars fan who has reached the age of consent should see Bruno Dumont's The Empire. It's a bizarre yet movingly humane satire that exposes the philosophical deficiencies of the movie genre that dominates global film culture.
Cinemalogue
Todd Jorgenson
Unless you're specifically attuned to Dumont's goofy sense of humor, the cartoonish result quickly becomes labored and lumbering, uncertain whether it's showing appreciation or striking back at its satirical targets.
Spectrum Culture
Bill Cooper
Dumont's latest space opera spoof is confusing and overwhelming, leaving viewers to wonder what the point was.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Its oddity, evident in the barest descriptions, is so extreme as to threaten to overshadow its distinctive artistry and ferocious substance.
In Review Online
Morris Yang
With its grandiose pronouncements and blatantly unflattering performances, The Empire might be taken as a post-ironic critique of human meaning, for which cynical laughter and sincere benediction are one and the same.
Film Threat
Ethan Padgett
With its eclectic cast, unconventional visuals, and clever reimagining of mythological elements, Bruno Dumont's film brings audiences on a peculiar adventure!
RogerEbert.com
Justine Smith
Working with the toolbox of popular American cinema to explore themes dear to the French cinematic canon, as well as his own, Dumont creates a singular cinematic experience.
Denerstein Unleashed
Robert Denerstein
...this off-kilter comedy fails as either a parody of big-time space operas or as an amusing helping of unabashed silliness.
Mark Reviews Movies
Mark Dujsik
[T]here's almost nothing of note going on in writer/director Bruno Dumont's science-fiction tale.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
Dumont's screenplay stirs simplistic notions of good and evil into a plot that goes nowhere except - literally - down its own black hole.
Truthdig
Siddhant Adlakha
Picture a version of the esoteric sci-fi masterpiece "2001: A Space Odyssey" made after a cartoon anvil has landed on Stanley Kubrick's head, causing animated canaries to circle overhead. The resulting film would probably look a lot like "L'Empire."
Loud and Clear Reviews
Sebastian Zavala Kahn
Isn't quite as hilarious as it thinks it is. [...] Most of the time, The Empire seems unsure of what it wants to do or what kind of tone it wants to convey, which results in a confounding experience.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
Exhausting, inane and repetitive.
Slant Magazine
William Repass
Notable as it is for evoking a kind of cosmic banality, writer-director Bruno Dumont's anti-space opera The Empire runs into same the pitfall as many parodies of its kind.
Eye for Film
Amber Wilkinson
If you've ever wondered what a Star Wars pastiche by Monty Python might look like if barely any of the jokes landed then the latest film from Bruno Dumont is for you.
The Film Verdict
Stephen Dalton
French writer-director Bruno Dumont combines visually dazzling 'Star Wars' parody with small-town farce in this ambitious but muddled space opera.
The Hollywood Reporter
Jordan Mintzer
You can accuse Dumont of many things, including testing the viewer's patience, but at least he hasn't sold out yet and gone over to the dark side.
Variety
Jessica Kiang
Van der Weyden and Carpentier are cruelly underused here, muscled out by a lot of mythmaking mumbo-jumbo that doesn't do anything substantial with all the opposing forces that Dumont's scrappy screenplay references.
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