Manager: Jean Gabriel Peirot
Gender: Documentary
premiere: 6/9/22
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Absolutely unclassifiable French documentary filmmaker Jean Gabriel Peirot tells inreturn to Reims‘, an ominous study of archival material, the history of France over the past eighty years from the perspective of the working class. Film takes as a starting point the homonymous essay of the philosopher Didier Eribon.She is voiced by actress Adele Haenel, the star of ‘120 Beats Per Minute’ and ‘Portrait of a Woman on Fire’, released in 2009, among others. Conscientious voice, conscientious text, and conscientious filmmaker, all backbone for the same purpose.
If the text is glossy, the montage of existing images is undeniably coherent.. Péirot, of course, speaks of his disillusionment with French reality in recent years, but his film has the resounding scope of a political essay on the ways the left bleeds to death and crumbles. projects—something comparable to all European left-wing parties—and the rise of the far right. It is the period from just before World War II to the present day., but Péirot has the ability to ensure that all these years and many elements are not tiring or tiring. If there is still a real political cinema, not movies playing the role of being political, ‘Back to Reims’ is one of the best examples.