LA MAISON DE LA RADIO is a vibrant portrait of Radio France, that nation's equivalent of NPR or the BBC. Directed by Nicolas Philibert (To Be and To Have), a master of the documentary genre, LA MAISON shows the day-to-day of a beloved cultural institution, as radio hosts, producers and journalists produce a vast array of shows to "culture-loving, politics-mad, talk-obsessed France" (Variety).
The movie collages the many faces of this complex enterprise, interweaving the station's news reports, literary events, in-studio musical performances, celebrity guest interviews, quiz shows, sports broadcasts, et alia. Roughly, the material spans the work day from early morning until late in the evening, with news stories developing over time -- sometimes hilariously, as when one reporter continues to discover new corpses in a river.
