WISHING YOU THE SAME
synopsis
The iconic book Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century by Patrik Ouředník, first published in 2001, has transformed the imagination of the French film-maker into an apocalyptic chronicle of the last century. A straightforward testimony of scientific rationality, which led the society to a spiritual crisis and resulted in six genocides, is accompanied with melancholic Mahlerian echoes of La Belle Époque when the world was just getting ready for the century that negated all humanity. The film raises the question whether Europe in post-history and post-humanity, sweetly anaesthetized to collective unconsciousness, will pretend as if nothing had happened.
international title: | Wishing you the same |
original title: | Espère de même pour toi |
country: | France |
year: | 2019 |
genre: | documentary |
directed by: | Arnaud de Mezamat |
film run: | 95' |
screenplay: | Patrik Ourednik |
cinematography by: | Arnaud de Mezamat |
film editing: | Pauline Le Duc, Arnaud de Mezamat |
music: | Marie-Jeanne Serero |
producer: | Arnaud de Mezamat |
production: | Abacaris Films, ARTE France – La Lucarne |
backing: | CNC. COSIP (FR), Procirep (FR), Angoa-Agicoa (FR), Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (FR), Europe Créative, Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, Département de l'Ardèche |