A film about the rise of far-right populism has triggered outrage in France after its trailer appeared to showcase a character based on Marine Le Pen, the president of the Front National and a candidate in France’s 2017 presidential election.
Chez Nous is directed and co-written by Belgian film-maker Lucas Belvaux, best known for the three-film 2002 offering Trilogy.
Chez Nous (AKA This Is Our Land) stars Émilie Duquenne as a nurse who becomes a political success in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region after becoming involved with the Patriotic Bloc, a thinly disguised fictional version of the Front National.
Belvaux added: “It’s not so much an anti-FN film as a film about the populist message and how people relate to politics.