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It’s here not to explain from the bottom up how an American city works, but to tell the messy, messy story of France under German occupation during World War II. Un village francais - you will not be surprised to learn that its English-language title is A French Village - is nothing less than The Wire of France, if by “ The Wire of France” we mean a sprawling, paradigm-resetting masterwork with high-minded ambitions. It amounts to 72 hours of five-star television. But there’s something out there that might, and it’s hiding in the bowels of your Amazon Prime/MHz programming: Un village francais. Maybe you haven’t seen Moonlight or Killing of a Sacred Deer or The Death of Stalin or Frances Ha, and those are all well worth watching, but add that up and that’s about eight hours of viewing, which doesn’t come close to equaling the time we might have spent in an alternate-universe version of 2020, in bars, airport terminals, concerts, at hot-air balloon festivals. Everything else, you’ve seen: Mindhunter and Ozark and The Last Kingdom and Unorthodox and Tiger King and all its ancillary cash-grabs, past and future. Extraction? Extraction is not a great movie, unless you are heir to a company supplying production companies with fake blood, in which case it is your destiny. You’ve already seen everything worth seeing, except maybe Train to Busan (recommended).