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By Jean-Gabriel PÉRIOT

CPH:DOX COPENHAGEN INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL - as FEST

Documentary - Completed 2019

The spirit of the revolution conquers a French school class, which takes part in a political and filmic experiment at a high school in the suburbs of Paris.

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CPH:DOX 2020
Movements
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • FRANCE
    • Languages
    • FRENCH
    • Duration
    • 96 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Jean-Gabriel PÉRIOT
    • Producer(s)
    • Frédéric DUBREUIL
    • Synopsis
    • 50 years after the uprisings of May 1968, a filmmaker invites a group of youths from high school in the suburbs of Paris to take part in an experiment. The youths are tasked with interpreting iconic scenes from the revolutionary films by Jean-Luc Godard and others. None of them are very active politically, but they gradually start to find their own language and suddenly the parallels to the crises of today become visible. Nobody tells them what they should think or do in the open and collaborative project. The new political consciousness comes from within themselves. The question is whether theory and practice always go hand in hand? Political education and film culture in a fascinating experiment.