Le Mois du doc : Projection du film documentaire "Conversations"

Conversations (Bertrand Meunier, 2024, 83 min. France)

Maison centrale de Poissy, 2016. Two chairs face each other. Inmates serving life sentences and prison guards take turns sitting there. As long as no insult or threat is uttered, the exchanges, conducted with uncovered faces, are completely free. No topic is taboo: detention, its role, its meaning, its reality, its vanity, its darker sides, and its dead ends are addressed openly. Seeing them converse in this way, one would almost think of discussions between colleagues or union meetings. Two worlds clash here which, despite living side by side every day, should know each other well — and yet have never had the opportunity to truly meet.

Cycle Failles républicaines

Second session of our documentary cycle with Périphérie, Conversations follows L’Effet Bahamas, a film in which unemployment insurance seems to be living its final convulsions as the victim of a mysterious epidemic driving people to leave for the tropics with fund money. Could the disappearance of the fund be a planned destruction? Following the money trail and the accounts of a few survivors, the director, currently unemployed, sets out to untangle the threads of a commonly accepted fiction.

These two interlocking films are invitations to reflect actively, to think as citizens about the practices and grey areas of our institutions.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with a member of the film crew..

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