Un jour dans la vie de Billy Lynn
(Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk)

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is first and foremost an experience of perception — hyperfluidity, clinical precision of detail, texture — which becomes the film’s true subject: the confusion between reality and representation. This experimental device lays bare an America intoxicated by its own image-making, where patriotism is indistinguishable from its spectacular self-celebrations. There is no more war, only its reenactment, emotion calibrated for the big screen. Through Billy’s bewildered eyes, the film examines the fracture of a country that can no longer tell courage from simulacrum, nor truth from image. Within this excess of blinding clarity, what emerges is the moral darkness of a nation fascinated by its own illusion. Jérôme Baron