France - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

A real-life court case in this country inspired a 2022 film in which a pregnant novelist attends a trial for a case that resembles the myth of Medea. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this country that produced Alice Diop’s film Saint Omer. This country invited Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer to depict the trial of one of its saints in the film The Passion of Joan of Arc.

ANSWER: France [or French Republic; or République française]

[10m] This 1960s sex symbol starred in Henri-Georges Clouzot’s (“awn-ree ZHORZH kloo-ZOH’s”) legal drama La Vérité (“veh-ree-TAY”). Serge Gainsbourg sang “Bonnie and Clyde” with this blonde star of Jean-Luc Godard’s film Contempt, who was often known by her alliterative initials.

ANSWER: Brigitte Bardot (“bree-ZHEET bar-DOH”) [prompt on BB]

[10h] A divorced lawyer looks for love in this director’s romcom In Bed With Victoria. This director supported the French pension protests in a speech after winning a Palme d’Or for a courtroom drama.

ANSWER: Justine Triet (“tree-YAY”) (Triet’s film Anatomy of a Fall won the 2023 Palme d’Or.)

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	6.67	67%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	11.67	100%	17%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	16.67	100%	33%	33%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	15.00	100%	33%	17%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	17.00	90%	50%	30%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	7	14.29	100%	29%	14%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Florida A	UCF C	0	0	0	0
Florida B	UCF B	10	0	0	10
Case Western A	Carnegie Mellon B	10	0	0	10
Ohio State A	Kenyon	10	0	0	10
Brandeis B	Dartmouth A	10	0	0	10
Northwestern A	Iowa	10	0	0	10
Northwestern B	Notre Dame A	10	0	0	10
George Washington A	George Washington B	10	10	10	30
Columbia B	Johns Hopkins A	10	0	0	10
Cornell D	RIT B	10	0	0	10
UCLA	Claremont B	10	10	0	20
UC Berkeley A	UCSD	10	0	10	20
UNC B	Duke	10	10	0	20
UNC C	Wake Forest	10	0	0	10
Chicago A	WashU A	10	10	10	30
Chicago C	Chicago D	10	0	0	10
Illinois A	Chicago B	10	10	0	20
Illinois B	Missouri	10	0	0	10
Iowa State	Wisconsin B	10	10	10	30
ASU	TAMU	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech D	Georgia Tech C	10	0	0	10
Tennessee A	Vanderbilt A	10	0	0	10
Cambridge A	Durham	10	0	10	20
Oxford A	Imperial B	10	0	0	10
Oxford B	Warwick A	10	0	0	10
Warwick B	Oxford C	10	0	0	10
Claremont A	UC Berkeley B	10	0	0	10
Florida State A	Valencia A	10	0	0	10
Michigan D	Carnegie Mellon A	10	0	0	10
Michigan A	Case Western B	10	0	0	10
Michigan C	Michigan State	10	0	0	10
Michigan B	Ohio State B	10	10	0	20
William & Mary	Liberty A	10	0	10	20
Virginia Tech A	Liberty C	10	0	0	10
UNC D	South Carolina	10	0	0	10
Virginia A	Liberty B	10	10	10	30
WashU B	Indiana B	10	0	0	10
Illinois C	Missoui S&T	10	0	0	10
Winona State	Carleton	10	10	0	20
Minnesota B	Wisconsin A	10	10	0	20
Harvard A	Brown A	10	0	0	10
MIT A	BU	10	10	0	20
Tufts A	Harvard B	10	0	0	10
Brandeis A	UMass Boston	10	10	10	30
Georgetown A	Georgetown B	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame C	Notre Dame B	10	0	0	10
Stanford B	Purdue	10	0	10	20
Texas B	Texas A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech B	10	0	0	10
Southampton A	Cambridge D	10	0	0	10
Manchester	Cambridge E	10	10	10	30
LSE	Bristol	10	10	0	20
Cambridge C	NYU C	10	10	10	30
Cambridge B	Sheffield	0	10	0	10
Southampton B	Imperial A	10	10	0	20
Cornell B	Maryland A	10	0	0	10
Maryland B	Columbia C	10	0	0	10
Rutgers A	John Jay College	10	0	0	10
Vassar A	Penn A	10	0	0	10
NYU A	Yale A	10	10	0	20
RIT A	Binghamton A	10	0	0	10
Cornell C	ESF A	10	0	0	10