Nicolas Philibert's fly-on-the-wall documentary takes us on an intriguing tour of emblematic French public radio.

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Nicolas Philibert, whose sensitivity and subtlety has been praised for his work on Palme d'Or-winning Etre et Avoir, is a fly on the wall in La Maison de la Radio. He takes us inside the emblematic building, behind the curtains of France's high quality national public radio. The filmmaker's work reveals a beehive, buzzing with the energy of hundreds of men, women, sounds and voices, the stuff of dozens of shows.

Lifting the vale on a mysterious institution, Philibert's enterprise is an interesting and, at times, amusing one. But the fly-on-the-wall quality of the content, stripped of commentary or narration, leaves the film with nothing to glue it together, rendering it mere illustration of sounds, putting a face on familiar voices to the French people. Witness to a whole day's broadcasting, the audience will swiftly sense how long it is, soon awaiting the end of the show.