La Commune (2000)
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Rated: Not Rated
Runtime: 5 hrs 45 mins
Synopsis: Directed by Peter Watkins (THE WAR GAME), this historical drama chronicles the violent political events that took place in Paris from March to May 1871 as a revolutionary government was formed following French defeat in the Franco-Prussian conflict.... [More]
Genre: Childrens
Director: Peter Watkins
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Filled with wall-to-wall political debate, pleas for social equality and critiques of power, the film is a furious, provocative, and rousing experimental documentary that reenacts the Commune's historical moment.
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10/27/06
By whatever criteria you choose, La Commune certainly proves to be a film exhibiting a tremendous amount of chutzpah. It can be described quite simply as a black and white digital video French communist historico-improv subtitled movie...
06/21/07
Regardless of whether you think Watkins is one of the only committed cinematic activists or that he's a smart but completely inaccessible conspiracy-theorist relic of the '60s, there's little doubting that La Commune is a grand summation of his sen
10/29/06
Peter Watkins's La Commune (Paris, 1871) is a marginalized, disjointed, whirling dervish of utopian ideas and devil-may-care indulgence, as was its subject matter.
10/29/06
Great masterpiece about the first working-class revolution in history.
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