Encirclement ( L'encerclement )

Encirclement (DVD) (*)

~~$45.99~~ $39.97

Original Title: L'encerclement
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Subtitles )
Greek ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Subtitles )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Subtitles )
Multi-lingual ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Switzerland ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
160 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2008 and produced in:
Canada ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Richard Brouillette

Written By:
Richard Brouillette

Kathleen Fleming

Actors:
Noam Chomsky ..... Himself
Ignacio Ramonet ..... Himself
Normand Baillargeon ..... Himself
Susan George ..... Herself
Omar Aktouf ..... Himself
Oncle Bernard ..... Himself
Michel Chossudovsky ..... Himself
François Denord ..... Himself
François Brune ..... Himself
Martin Masse ..... Himself
Jean-Luc Migué ..... Himself
Filip Palda ..... Himself
Donald J. Boudreaux ..... Himself

Synopsis:

There are texts that with time become indispensable. One such is 'La pensée unique', published by Ignacio Ramonet in 'Le Monde diplomatique' in January 1995. It is the basic inspiration behind Richard Brouillette's film. The title of this film-saga, which is expressionist in its musical punctuation and at the same time Calvinist and anti-spectacular in black and white, is programmatic: L'ENCERCLEMENT - LA DEMOCRATIE DANS LES RETS DU NEOLIBERALISME. The filmmaker, who spent twelve years making the film, and who is also its producer, script writer, montage specialist and translator, has put together a fresco of thirteen specialists from areas relating to capitalist and neo-liberal phenomena and their avatars. It is an erudite performance of articulacy and active intelligence. Richard Brouillette's commitment is to make this learning accessible. The narrative is organised into two parts and ten chapters; the texts, which lead to particular transitions, and Eric Morin's powerful music punctuate the unfolding of the montage, which has been put together like tiles. Each intervention comments upon and critiques the previous one and develops what has already been set out in terms of concepts and reflections.The filmmaker assembles thought and fragments of knowledge, piece by piece. Archives are integrated at certain moments, anchoring clarified phenomena in layers of time. These phenomena cannot be reduced to the current world crisis, which Richard Brouillette could not have anticipated and which, in a magnificent gift from reality to the film, corroborates the validity of his approach. Rather than allowing ENCERLEMENT to become partisan, he intelligently leaves it to brilliant defenders and opponents of the neo-liberal system of values to speak, carrying spectators along with them on an inspiring journey: that giving oneself the means to understand traces the possibly revolutionary path of one's emancipation.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 14 January, 2019.