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Wishing You the Same

2019-09-05
9
fr 96m
Documentary
The iconic book ”Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century” by Patrik Ouředník, first published in 2001, thanks to the imagination of the French filmmaker has transformed 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.

Director

Arnaud de Mezamat

Writer

Patrik Ouředník

Director of Photography

Arnaud de Mezamat

Editor

Pauline Le Duc

Editor

Arnaud de Mezamat

Sound

Tomas Besson

based on novel or book

Status

Released

Countries

  • France

Companies

  • Abacaris Films
  • ARTE