Location: 72 Lodi Estate
City: Delhi
Date: Fri, 2012/07/27 – 5:30pm
Price: Free entry – Rights of admission reserved
Category: Performance
Louise-Michel
Date: Friday, 27 July 2012
5:30 pm & 7:30 pm
Directors: Gustave Kervern & Benoît Delépine
2008, 90 min
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.
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