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L'exercice de l'État / The Minister (2011)

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L'exercice de l'État / The Minister (2011)

L'exercice de l'État (2011)
DVDRip | AVI | 720 x 306 | XviD @ 737 Kbps | 112 min | 725 Mb
Audio: French MP3 @ 128 Kbps | Subs (srt): Spanish, English
Genre: Drama

French Minister for Transport Bertrand Saint-Jean is woken in the middle of the night by his personal private secretary: a bus has crashed into a ravine, initiating a dark odyssey through a treacherous world for the State official. In staging one man's effort to occupy the complex spaces of power – between conviction and compromise; command and obedience – Schöller invites us to reflect on one of Michel Foucault's preoccupations: the minister – a figure half-way between state administrator and religious pastor.
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Le ministre des Transports Bertrand Saint-Jean est réveillé en pleine nuit par son directeur de cabinet. Un car a basculé dans un ravin. Il y va, il n’a pas le choix. Ainsi commence l’odyssée d’un homme d’Etat dans un monde toujours plus complexe et hostile. Vitesse, lutte de pouvoirs, chaos, crise économique… Tout s’enchaîne et se percute. Une urgence chasse l’autre. A quels sacrifices les hommes sont-ils prêts ? Jusqu’où tiendront-ils, dans un Etat qui dévore ceux qui le servent? -> allocine.fr

IMDB

I am not familiar with political features. LA CONQUETE was a real gem, very interesting about the rise of Nicolas Sarkozy - in 2007 - to power. It will remain a classic. This one I comment today is something different. Weird, very weird. But fascinating too. A strange but accurate study of the political backyards that the common people don't know about. The picture of every minute, every hour of a minister who have to struggle against his own government, friends, family, and many other things. Olivier Gourmet's performance is outstanding, and the pace of this non action film vivid at a point you couldn't imagine.

Look out for a car accident, in the middle of the film. A real brutal sequence that made me startle on my seat. And the audience too. I have never seen such a sequence, even in a James Bond film, or an action flick, even the best ones.

A strange film which deserves to be seen.
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L'exercice de l'État / The Minister (2011)

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