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The Confession
Why this pick
Like Z, it turns political repression into a tense, accumulating procedural, with an individual caught inside a state system that manufactures its own version of truth.
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MOVIE1969 2h 7m FRA
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Why this pick
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State of Siege
Why this pick
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The Official Story
Why this pick
More intimate and emotionally devastating than Z, but similarly driven by the dawning recognition that a respectable public order rests on systematic concealment.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The story begins with the closing moments of a rather dull government lecture and slide show on agricultural policy, after which the leader of the security police of a Right-wing politics military-dominated government takes over the podium for an impassioned speech describing the government's program to combat leftism, using the metaphors of "a mildew of the mind", an infiltration tactic of "-ism", or "sunspots".
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Irene Papas
Hélène
Charles Denner
Manuel
François Périer
Public Prosecutor
Pierre Dux
General
Julien Guiomar
Colonel
Gérard Darrieu
Barone
Marcel Bozzuffi
Vago
Jacques Perrin
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