I feel that right now in France, people are captivated by questions of law and justice, said Wilfried Jude, artistic co-director of Atmospheres 53 which runs the Festival du Film Judiciaire in Laval, a festival of films on legal issues that has a growing audience. It's about how a trial, or a film of a trial, can become emblematic of the state of society.
Lawyers and critics say arthouse film-makers are subverting and reinventing the courtroom drama genre to explore fault lines in French society and raise questions on gender, race and prejudice as well as motherhood and relationships.
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