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Our Defeats

Nos défaites

2019

Jean-Gabriel Périot

Documentary, Self: Swann Agha, Natasha Andraos, Ghaïs Bertout-Ourabah ...

6.3

125

Documentary In May and June 2018, Jean-Gabriel Périot collaborated with ten students in a film class at a high school in Ivry-sur-Seine on a project that unites cinema with politics. The students worked both in front of and behind the camera, restaging scenes of strikes, resistance, and labour disputes from films dating from the late 1960s to the late 1970s, including ones by Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Tanner. Nos défaites assembles the results, and ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Phil Hoad The Guardian	"Périot’s film was not meant to be merely observational, but actively consciousness-raising (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] offers up an interesting now vs. then comparison, placing today’s troubles in the light of past struggles, but also grows repetitive in its systematic juxtaposition of old and new.	NEU
	Fabien Lemercier Cineuropa	"An informative portrait of the endearing fragility of 16-year-olds (...) 'Our Defeats' delivers a striking statement on the evolution of ideals and ideologies, a good fifty years after May '68."	POS

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