McDonald Road Library Film Club + French Film Festival - We/Nous
Join us at McDonald Road Library on 29th June for an exciting collaboration with the French Film Festival UK, featuring "We", a documentary that explores France's societal divisions!
About McDonald Road Library Film Club + French Film Festival - We/Nous
Join us at McDonald Road Library for an exciting collaboration with the French Film Festival UK, featuring "We", a documentary that explores France's societal divisions and the persistent human urge to connect amid isolation and discrimination.
Synopsis:
The RER B is an urban train that traverses Paris and its environs from north to south. A moving testament to the importance of filming as a process of bearing witness and remembering, We is subtle and shrewd in a world which favours shortcuts and easy answers. Justifiably adopting the fragmented structure of a patchwork portrait in order to describe a riven society, Diop displays impressive control of her essay and its impact. In the film’s first few minutes, a deer is observed, through binoculars. Isolation, discrimination and nostalgia for hierarchies, inherited from a monarchical past… Divisions haunt France’s present. But the human urge to give as well as to receive stubbornly creeps into every situation, observed or triggered. Could this be the one thing that still keeps a nation together?
Director: Alice Diop
Genre: Documentary
Running Time: 1 h 55 min
Production year: 2020
Language: French with English Subtitle
Rating: 15
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