"Louise-Michel" film screening at Alliance Francaise De Delhi, 72, Lodhi Estate > 5:30pm & 7:30pm on 27th July 2012
Time : 5:30 pm & 7:30 pm(
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Event Details : 'Louise-Michel' film screening.
Louise-Michel, with a hyphen. The homonymy with the Communard anarchist is claimed by the filmmakers, but it is here above all the story of Louise and Michel, an unlikely couple. Louise is an illiterate worker. When she discovers with her colleagues that all the machines of the factory where she is working have been moved during the night, that they have lost their job and that they will receive only 100 Euros for each year of presence as redundancy payment, she has an idea that will be approved unanimously: hire a killer to shoot the thug boss. This will be Michael, a crappy security guard, living in a labyrinth of deserted mobile homes. With the verve and the black humor characterizing their cinema, Gustave Kervern et Benoît Delépine, the two “punks” of the French contemporary cinema, have build a series of shocking and irresistibly funny scenes, often both at once: recruiting moribund patients for a dirty criminal work, the hunting and the tasting of a raw rabbit on the moor of Jersey, a funny musical evening in a bar of Brussels. But despite this farcical and ludicrous background, this struggle against capitalism and globalization also shows the darkest reality of their excesses: the negation of identities as the final stage of modern alienation.
Director : Gustave Kervern & Benoît Delépine
Year : 2008
Duration : 90 min
Ciné-Club July: Work & Alienation : According to Karl Marx, “the production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.” The rigorous study of capitalism by the German philosopher has durably established that mass production is inextricably linked with the alienation of workers. Some communist filmmakers like Eisenstein or Giuseppe de Santis have brilliantly shown this process in the past. Today the
situation of labor world is less comparable to a “class struggle”, but the problems of domination and pain in workplaces are still very topical.
Our selection of films for the month of July will present four stories of people reacting in many different ways to unbearable conditions of work, finding more or less violent solutions, but always revealing a deep crisis, both individual and general, filmed in many different genres, from dark humor to thriller.
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)Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : M.L. Bhartia Auditorium, Alliance Francaise De Delhi, 72, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi - 110003
Landmark : Next to Annexe building of India International Centre
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Stations - 'Khan Market(Violet Line)' & 'Jor Bagh(Yellow Line)'
Area : Lodhi Road Area Events
Event Details : 'Louise-Michel' film screening.
Louise-Michel, with a hyphen. The homonymy with the Communard anarchist is claimed by the filmmakers, but it is here above all the story of Louise and Michel, an unlikely couple. Louise is an illiterate worker. When she discovers with her colleagues that all the machines of the factory where she is working have been moved during the night, that they have lost their job and that they will receive only 100 Euros for each year of presence as redundancy payment, she has an idea that will be approved unanimously: hire a killer to shoot the thug boss. This will be Michael, a crappy security guard, living in a labyrinth of deserted mobile homes. With the verve and the black humor characterizing their cinema, Gustave Kervern et Benoît Delépine, the two “punks” of the French contemporary cinema, have build a series of shocking and irresistibly funny scenes, often both at once: recruiting moribund patients for a dirty criminal work, the hunting and the tasting of a raw rabbit on the moor of Jersey, a funny musical evening in a bar of Brussels. But despite this farcical and ludicrous background, this struggle against capitalism and globalization also shows the darkest reality of their excesses: the negation of identities as the final stage of modern alienation.
Director : Gustave Kervern & Benoît Delépine
Year : 2008
Duration : 90 min
Ciné-Club July: Work & Alienation : According to Karl Marx, “the production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.” The rigorous study of capitalism by the German philosopher has durably established that mass production is inextricably linked with the alienation of workers. Some communist filmmakers like Eisenstein or Giuseppe de Santis have brilliantly shown this process in the past. Today the
situation of labor world is less comparable to a “class struggle”, but the problems of domination and pain in workplaces are still very topical.
Our selection of films for the month of July will present four stories of people reacting in many different ways to unbearable conditions of work, finding more or less violent solutions, but always revealing a deep crisis, both individual and general, filmed in many different genres, from dark humor to thriller.
"Louise-Michel" film screening at Alliance Francaise De Delhi, 72, Lodhi Estate > 5:30pm & 7:30pm on 27th July 2012
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